From 06852cf8de736e8deadb1d4547a995d3778c6df8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Silvana Ayala Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 17:00:26 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] update installation.rst --- docs/sphinx/source/installation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) 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 ~~~~~~