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README for LSM tools
Lars Wirzenius
"@(#)lsmtool:README,v 1.2 1994/08/09 18:19:09 liw Exp"
Here are a few tools I wrote for maintaining LSM.
lsmcheck reads a database from the standard input and checks that
all entries look valid. The checks are not very sophisticated yet.
It writes all bad entries to the file "bad-entries". You might
want to use it to check an entry before sending it out. (Please do!)
Lsmtool is a program for maintaining and browsing a Linux Software Map
(LSM) database. H gives help. Cursor keys do not work.
Name of database must be given on the command line.
Lsmtool is still a quick kluge and is neither well-written nor
particularly robust. Hopefully it won't cause you too much trouble.
Ctrl-z doesn't work (I hate writing interactive programs with curses).
Cnvt-2-to-3 partially converts an LSM file of the old format (by Jeff
Kopmanski) to my new format (version 3). It is probably useless
for you.
All these programs rely heavily on Publib, my function library for C.
You can get Publib from ftp://ftp.cs.helsinki.fi/pub/Software/Local/Publib/.
To configure (you can leave off the "env" if using a Bourne shell):
env CPPFLAGS=-I/publib/header/dir LIBS=-L/publib/lib/dir ./configure
or, if you installed Publib so that the compiler and linker will automatically
find it (preferable):
./configure
Then to compile and install:
make
make install
I have only tested or used these programs with Linux.
Lsmtool and the other programs may be copied according to the GNU
General Public License, which may be found in
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/gnu/COPYING-2. (I have not bothered to include
it in this program.)
Please send bug reports, comments and bug fixes and whatnot via e-mail to
lars.wirzenius@helsinki.fi. Thanks.