diff --git a/docs/sphinx/source/installation.rst b/docs/sphinx/source/installation.rst index 32067192..4fe68c6b 100644 --- a/docs/sphinx/source/installation.rst +++ b/docs/sphinx/source/installation.rst @@ -183,6 +183,12 @@ Linux/Mac OSX: The gencumsky source is included in the repo's ``/bifacial_radiance/data/gencumsky`` directory along with a make_gencumskyexe.py script which builds the multi-platform gencumulativesky executables. More details on the use of this script in readme.txt or on thread (:issue:`182`). +We suggest you recompile the executable to make sure it works with your version of Linux, otherwise issues like (:issue:`182`) or (:issue:`268`) can happen. To recompile, navigate to bifacial_radiance\data\gencumsky folder, and type + + python make_gencumuskyexe.py + +This will generate an updated gencumulativesky in this same folder. Place this executable on your Radiance/bin directory as instructed above. + STEP 3 ~~~~~~