Ohana is the collection of programs written by Eugene Magnier which form a major portion of the Elixir software. These pages document the user interface to the various Ohana programs.

Within the Ohana software system, there are several types of programs and program groups. There are basic, independent C programs, groups of related C programs which address a common Elixir system, C programs which run as daemons, and C programs which provide an interactive command language environment. There are also a number of perl, csh, and tcl scripts.

Software Organization

The top-level of the Ohana software tree includes the Makefile, a system-dependent configuration file, and the directories src, bin, lib, and include. Within the bin, lib, and include directories, there are subdirectories by computer architecture. These allow a segregation of the architecture dependent binary files, and provide some flexibility for working will various types of hardware. The Makefiles require the environment variable ARCH to be set to make complilation choices and to place the binaries in their appropriate locations. The ohana user may choose to include this directory in their path, in which case they should define the variable in their resource files (.cshrc / .bashrc / etc) using the sample given in getarch, and set the pathname to the value ohana/bin/$ARCH, which will then correctly expand depending on what machine the user is one. An alternative is to treat the ohana tree as the program development tree, and to export the binaries to an architecture-dependent external location.

The src directory contains all of the program and library source-code subdirectories. Many of the programs are contained within their own unique src subdirectory, but there are a few execeptions. First, the perl, csh, and tcl scripts are collected together in perl, csh, and tcl subdirectories. Second, there are a variety of simple, small C-programs in the directory misc. Third, there is a collection of related C programs which provide user interfaces to the Elixir databases. These are collected together in the imregister-3.0 subdirectory.

Each of the program and library subdirectories contain their own src, bin, and include directories. When the programs are compiled, the C files in src are compiled to .o files with names which include the $ARCH value: src/foo.c -> src/foo.linux.o. The output executable is written to the bin directory with a name which also includes the binary: bin/foo.linux. These are then installed in the appropriate ohana/bin/ARCH directories with 'make install'. In the case of the program directories which include multiple C programs, the make file takes commands of the form 'make program', 'make program.install', 'make program.clean', etc, which perform the requested operation on the specific program. The generic commands 'make' and 'make install' will operate on the complete collection of programs.