Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of ParallelIPPvers

Timestamp:

Apr 14, 2009, 4:09:06 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

Sebastian Jester

Comment:

Update compile instructions for svn export

ParallelIPPvers

@@ -1 +1 @@
 = How to install one or more parallel IPP installations =
 
-== Setting up a global psconfig directory ==
+== Preliminaries: Setting up a global psconfig directory ==
 
 There's one directory where all IPP installations live. By default, it's ~/psconfig/ but you can make it a different location by creating a file ~/.psconfigrc which contains
@@ -82 +82 @@
 In general, the configuration system may be changing, so that a per-user configuration that works with one version of IPP may cease to work with the next release. Thus, it may be necessary to compare the local versions of .ipprc, .ptolemyrc and any individual camera config files with their defaults from the new IPP version (in MYINSTALLDIR/share/ippconfig).
 
-= Compiling and installing IPP=
+= Compiling and installing IPP =
 
-== Always ==
+Go to [http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/project/IPP/software IPP download page] for tarballs of numbered versions; in addition to the IPP tarball itself, you will also need the extlibs and extperl tarballs with the matching version number.
+
+== What you always need to do ==
 
 The necessary steps are: Get an IPP tarfile or export from svn (previously cvs); set the new version ID under which the psconfigure mechanism will know which version of IPP you mean (set the version id including the date if from svb/cvs, or using the version number if it is a numbered release); run the '''psbuild''' script which should compile everything in one long go.
@@ -92 +94 @@
  cd /IPP/
  svn export -r {2009-04-14} https://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/repo/ipp/trunk/ ./svn-20090414
+ # If downloading a numbered tarball, unpack it into a directory 
+ # with a corresponding name, like /IPP/ipp-2.6.1. The extlibs and extperl
+ # tarballs originally needed to be unpacked into /IPP/extlibs and /IPP/extperl (i.e. neighbouring
+ # the IPP source code directory), but are now *inside* the IPP source tree.
+ 
  # Set psconfig id of new version
  psconfig svn-20090414
- # Install autoconf 2.61 which is needed
+ # Install autoconf >= 2.61 which is needed - copy it from /IPP/extlibs/autoconf-2.61.tar.gz 
+ # or get it from http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
  cd /IPP/extlibs/autoconf-2.61
  ./configure --prefix=/IPP/svn-20090414.lin64/
@@ -104 +112 @@
  psbuild -dev -extbuild 
  # omit the -dev if building from a version-numbered tarball
+ # add -clean -rebuild on recompiling to make sure that earlier versions are cleaned
 }}}