From 1ad4adaef53c15bf05047e1d720390125cdc9d78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Curtis Vogt Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:58:06 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Document required build tool: which (#37494) On minimal Linux environments `which` may not be an installed tool. Alternatively `command -v` could be used as an alternative in the Makefiles to avoid this dependency. --- doc/build/build.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/build/build.md b/doc/build/build.md index 6f9dc10c18c5e..412606d5b1499 100644 --- a/doc/build/build.md +++ b/doc/build/build.md @@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ Building Julia requires that the following software be installed: - **[cmake]** (>= 3.4.3) — needed to build `libgit2`. - **[pkg-config]** — needed to build `libgit2` correctly, especially for proxy support. - **[powershell]** (>= 3.0) — necessary only on Windows. +- **[which]** — needed for checking build dependencies. On Debian-based distributions (e.g. Ubuntu), you can easily install them with `apt-get`: ``` @@ -220,6 +221,7 @@ uses are listed in [`deps/Versions.make`](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blo [mbedtls]: https://tls.mbed.org/ [pkg-config]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/ [powershell]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/wmf/overview +[which]: https://carlowood.github.io/which/ ## Build dependencies