From f7223e54ed3f8d41e936da7817127d43a5040af2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Adam J. Stewart" Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 19:46:54 -0600 Subject: 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. --- lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst b/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst index cd54d1ee35..58c69d1d2d 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2