drewp

I figured out how to bulid julialang from source on a raspberry pi 3 running raspian.

Add more swap, since the last build step needs about 1.3GB of ram:

# fallocate -l 1G swap2
# chmod 0600 swap2 
# mkswap swap2
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1048572 KiB
no label, UUID=60ae0fd6-deec-4148-ac93-b59df12cdb97
# swapon swap2
# free
            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        948012     395968     552044       1112      45796      73888
-/+ buffers/cache:     276284     671728
Swap:      1150968      59188    1091780

Install dependencies:

aptitude install libunwind-dev gfortran m4 cmake libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev libssh2-1-dev

Get julia and build:

$ git clone https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia.git

$ cd julia

~/julia $ make

Run:

~/julia $ ./julia
WARNING: unable to determine host cpu name.
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  A fresh approach to technical computing
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |  Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?help" for help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 0.5.0-dev+3809 (2016-04-30 15:44 UTC)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Commit 7315f52 (0 days old master)
|__/                   |  arm-linux-gnueabihf

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