Hi all,
[Ok, pretty long mail. Please read the beginning. though]
I've build and installed all pieces of software used by us on our AFS
area. It's only done for GNU/Linux (AFS sysname i386_redhat61). Most
are in the production ("pro") part, but a few, not deemed quite stable
yet, are in the development ("new") area. Here's a breakdown:
Package | Version | Area | Notes
-------------+---------+------+------------------------------------
GNU M4 | 1.4 | pro |
GNU Awk | 3.0.6 | pro |
GNU Make | 3.77 | pro |
GNU Autoconf | 2.13 | pro |
GNU Automake | 1.4 | pro |
GNU Libtool | 1.3.5 | pro |
MySQL | 3.23.38 | pro | Clients programs and libraries only
BRAG | 1.0.0 | pro |
BREG | 1.0.0 | pro |
ROOT | 3.01/05 | new | Only extra options: STAR and MySQL
BRAT | 2.0.2 | new |
BROP | 1.0.0 | new |
-------------+---------+------+------------------------------------
To use any of this software, you _must_ have AFS installed on your
machine (true for all pii's, rcas', rmine's, rcf, and so on). If you
don't why not get OpenAFS from IBM at:
http://www.openafs.org/
Pre-build binaries for many system exist. Check out the "Latest
Release" link from the above page. Note that you only need to get the
client package and perhaps the kernel module package if you have a
custom build Linux kernel. If you want, you can also get the
development package, so that you may compile ROOT with AFS support.
To use the production software, put
/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/pro
in your PATH environment variable.
To use the development software, put
/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/new
in your PATH environment variable, _before_ the "pro" directory.
Note, that all you need to set is your PATH environment variable -
nothing more, nothing less. In other words, the environment variables
ROOTSYS
BRATSYS
BRATHOME
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
should not be set. Ofcourse you may have set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
something, due to some other package you use, but then you defently
shouldn't have $ROOTSYS/lib:$BRATSYS/lib/$BRAHMS_ARCH in your path.
Note also, that the variable
BRAHMS_ARCH
is not really used by any of the above software. To put it another
way, you can use the BRAHMS software by having a TCSH login file like
#
# Minimal ~/.login file to use BRAHMS software
#
setenv PATH /afs/rhic/opt/brahms/new:/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/pro:${PATH}
#
# EOF
#
or a BASH profile file like
#
# Minimal ~/.profile file to use BRAHMS software
#
export PATH=/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/new:/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/pro:${PATH}
#
# EOF
#
[End of the beginning. Skim through the rest if you like]
For those intrested in setting up a binary mirror on thier local
machine(s), here's what I did:
* Gnu Tools:
- Got GNU tools from GNU mirror FTP (see
http://www.gnu.org/server/list-mirrors.html) site in tar-balls
gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.13.tar.gz
gnu/automake/automake-1.4.tar.gz
gnu/gawk/gawk-3.0.6-ps.tar.gz
gnu/libtool/libtool-1.3.5.tar.gz
gnu/m4/m4-1.4.tar.gz
gnu/make/make-3.77.tar.gz
- Included /afs/rhic/opt/brahms/pro in PATH (important).
- Unpacked, build and installed the GNU software in the following
order (this is important):
M4 Gawk Make Autoconf Automake Libtool
All packages was configured with
./configure --prefix=/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/pro
And then build with
make
make install
* Mysql:
- Got MySQL source tar ball from MySQL FTP mirror
(http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mirrors.html) site in tar-ball
DownLoads/MySQL-3.23/mysql-3.23.38.tar.gz
- Configured the MySQL source tree with
./configure --prefix=/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/pro \
--enable-thread-safe-client \
--without-server --without-docs \
--without-bench \
--with-comment \
--without-debug
- Build and installed:
make
make install
* BRAG:
- Got BRAG from CVS area:
cvs export -r BRAG-1.0.0 -d brag-1.0.0 brag
cd brag-1.0.0
- Make autotool files and configured the source tree of BRAG:
./autogen --prefix=/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/pro
- Build and installed BRAG:
make install
* BREG:
- Got BREG from CVS area:
cvs export -r BREG-1.0.0 -d brag-1.0.0 breg
cd breg-1.0.0
- Fixed a problem with duplicate AC_BREG macroes (I'll try fix this
in the CVS instead)
rm */config/breg.m4
- Make autotool files and configured the source tree of BREG:
./autogen --prefix=/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/pro
- Build and installed BREG:
make install
* ROOT:
- Got ROOT sources from CVS area
cvs -d :pserver:cvs@root.cern.ch:/user/cvs login
Password: cvs
cvs -d :pserver:cvs@root.cern.ch:/user/cvs export -r v3-01-05 \
-d root-3.01.05 root
- Configured ROOT source tree with:
./configure linuxegcs \
--prefix=/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/new \
--etcdir=/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/new/etc/root \
--libdir=/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/new/lib \
--with-mysql-libdir=/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/pro/lib/mysql \
--with-mysql-incdir=/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/pro/include/mysql \
--enable-soversion \
--enable-rpath \
--enable-star
- Build and installed ROOT
make
make install
* BRAT:
- Got BRAT sources from CVS
cvs export -r BRAT-2-0-2 -d brat-2.0.2 brat
cd brat-2.0.2
- Put /afs/rhic/opt/brahms/new in PATH (important)
- Make autotool files and configured BRAT source tree with
./autogen --prefix=/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/new
- Build and installed BRAT
make install
* BROP:
- Got BROP sources from CVS
cvs export -r BROP-1-0-0 -d brop-1.0.0 brop
cd brop-1.0.0
- Make autotool files and configured BROP source tree with
./autogen --prefix=/afs/rhic/opt/brahms/new
- Build and installed BROP
make install
As you can see, this is pretty uniform way of build everything we
need.
You should ofcourse replace /afs/rhic/opt/brahms with something more
appropiate for your system. I suggest you get your SysOp to make a
directory like /opt/brahms, /usr/local/brahms or something, and make
that directory write-able for some account on your system, and then
install everything there. If your SysOp's middle name is BOFH
(Bastard Operator From Hell), you can also have some designated
account install everything in it's home directory (need a large disk
quota though). Please note that you need quite a lot of free space on
the disk you install on, and also quite a lot of free space on the
disk you put the sources in. Approx numbers are
* For the source trees ~450MB. This is actually quite a lot. A
partial break down is (approx numbers)
ROOT 88 MB
BRAT 128 MB
BRAG 15 MB (due to static CERNLIB libraries)
BREG 56 MB (due to static CERNLIB libraries)
BROP 42 MB
MySQL 65 MB
GNU Tools 20 MB
* For the installed software, you need ~150MB
I actually suggest keeping the source code around (though you may want
to do a "make clean" after installation to save some disk space),
since all packages provide an "uninstall" target so that you may
easily uninstall any package. Note, only ROOT's CVS head has the
uninstall target (in all modisty added by me :-).
If your system already has GNU Autotools (autoconf, automake and
libtool) as well as GNU Awk and GNU Make installed, you don't need to
install the GNU packages, and you should not delete the files
"brag-1.0.0/*/config/breg.m4".
If your system already have a fairly new MySQL client library +
headers installed, you can skip that step too. Note, that you may
want to setup a local server if you want to play around with the
database classes; please refer to the proper packages and the
MySQL documentation.
Also, you'd probably like to compile ROOT with at least TTF and GL
support on your local system, as this will give you much enhanced
graphics output. Please refer to root-3.01.05/README/INSTALL. The
ROOT version installed on /afs/rhic/opt/brahms/new will not be build
with these extra features, since it's mainly intended for batch
processing. We may want to include TTF support if people will also
use that ROOT for graphics output.
Yours,
Christian -----------------------------------------------------------
Holm Christensen Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91
Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Office: (+45) 353 25 305
DK-2200 Copenhagen N Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm
Denmark Email: cholm@nbi.dk
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