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A simple build tool for ALICE software

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aliBuild

A simple build tool for ALICE experiment software and its externals. Recipes for the externals and ALICE software are stored in alidist <https://github.com/alisw/alidist>_.

Instant gratification with::

pip install alibuild
git clone https://github.com/alisw/alidist.git
aliBuild build AliRoot
alienv enter AliRoot/latest
aliroot -b

Full documentation at:

https://alisw.github.io/alibuild

Pre-requisites

If you are using aliBuild directly from git clone, you should make sure you have pyyaml and argparse in your python distribution.