[Pkg-julia-devel] building julia 0.3

[Ross Boylan]

I'm interested in getting julia 0.3 on Debian stable, having been
advised that 0.2 is a bit rough around the edges.  Does anyone here have
any advice about how best to do that?

My goal is just to get something running for myself, though if that
contributes to making a proper deb I'd be delighted.

It looks as if going straight to upstream and following their build
instructions will build a whole bunch of software that is already in
Debian, though most will likely be at a different version from stable.
It seems preferable to use the  packaged ones, which the debianized
0.2.1 does according to its dependencies.

Do you recommend going with the packaged versions of dependencies or
building them fresh as part of the julia build?  Upstream does say that
bringing your own version voids the warranty :)

It looks as if the debian version avoids downloading the dependencies by
the COMMON_FLAGS in debian/rules; are there any other places that are
relevant to that goal?

Finally, would you recommend starting from the upstream source, the
debian tarball, or the debian git version?

One obvious strategy would be to start with debian git and then pull
from julia upstream.

Thanks for any advice.  Even if you don't know, an informed guess would
be better than mine.

Thanks also for your working making julia available in Debian.

Ross Boylan

P.S. cc appreciated; my mail system tends to reject mail from alioth.