
For the impatient:
- Install at least g++, python, scons, boost, numpy
- READ the file scons/templates/README_FIRST
- Copy a suitable template options file from scons/templates/ to
  scons/`hostname`_options.py and modify as required.
- type: scons to build escript

For more information read the install guide (scons install_pdf)
and to get started using escript see the user guide and the cookbook. 
All of these documents are available at https://esys-escript.github.io/
