Julia for Debian
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Starting Julia REPL
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  Simply type `julia' in a shell to launch an interactive Julia session.

  Full documentation and examples are available in the julia-doc package.
  /usr/share/doc/julia/html/en/index.html

  An Emacs mode for editing Julia source files and managing interactive sessions
  is available in the ess package.

  -- Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org>, Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:07:45 +0200


Julia and Math Kernel Library (intel-mkl)
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  To rebuild Julia against MKL, set the variable CUSTOM_MKL as 1 in
  debian/rules, and rebuild the package. Please make sure that you
  have intel-mkl installed before doing the custom build.

  Brief Instruction for doing custom build against MKL:

    0. Fetch the source package of julia and enter the source tree.

    1. Install the build dependencies and helper scripts

       $ sudo apt install devscripts
       $ sudo apt build-dep julia

    2. Modify debian/rules, setting CUSTOM_MKL to 1 .

    3. Build, check, and install.

       $ debuild -j4
       $ debc
       $ sudo debi

  Known Problems:

    1. When MKL is installed in the build environment, this test failure
       may appear: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/23264

  -- Mo Zhou <cdluminate@gmail.com>  Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:13:56 +0000
