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authorAdam J. Stewart <ajstewart426@gmail.com>2019-03-06 19:46:54 -0600
committerPeter Scheibel <scheibel1@llnl.gov>2019-03-06 19:46:54 -0600
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Make is a required dependency of Spack (#10386)
Update documentation on getting started to mention that a "make" executable is required to build packages with Spack.
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@@ -16,10 +16,11 @@ Prerequisites
Spack has the following minimum requirements, which must be installed
before Spack is run:
-1. Python 2 (2.6 or 2.7) or 3 (3.4 - 3.7)
-2. A C/C++ compiler
-3. The ``git`` and ``curl`` commands.
-4. If using the ``gpg`` subcommand, ``gnupg2`` is required.
+#. Python 2 (2.6 or 2.7) or 3 (3.4 - 3.7) to run Spack
+#. A C/C++ compiler for building
+#. The ``make`` executable for building
+#. The ``git`` and ``curl`` commands for fetching
+#. If using the ``gpg`` subcommand, ``gnupg2`` is required
These requirements can be easily installed on most modern Linux systems;
on Macintosh, XCode is required. Spack is designed to run on HPC