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-
- RLaB Installation Instructions:
-
- To configure rlab for your platform you must:
-
- Make the Libraries: The libraries that are compatible with
- rlab-0.99 are: rblas-1.1.tar
- rlap-1.1.tar
- rfft-1.1.tar
- rnlib-1.1.tar
- plplot4p99f.tar.gz (optional)
-
- Each library unpacks into it's own directory. Use configure to
- create the Makefile, then type `make'. `make install' to install
- the library. See the README file in each library directory for
- further instructions.
-
- 1.) Unpack the rlab distribution (you have already done that :-).
- 2.) Type `./configure' from within the top-level rlab directory.
-
- 2.a) Configure will recognize certain "with" options:
-
- --prefix=dir Use dir as the root of the software
- installation tree.
- --with-cc Use the cc compiler
- --with-gcc Use the GNU C compiler
- --with-LIBS=dir Look for all libraries in dir 1st. If
- the bulk of your libraries are not in
- /usr/local/lib, then this is a good
- option to use.
- --with-NALIBS=dir Look for the Numerical Analysis
- libraries in dir
- --with-FLIBS=dir Look for the f2c libraries in dir. If
- the f2c libraries are in the same
- place as the Numerical Analysis libs,
- then this option is unnecessary.
-
- --with-PLIBS=dir Look for the PLPLOT library in dir.
-
- See the fortran notes below if you wish to link with Fortran
- compiled subroutines.
-
- 3.) Type `make'
-
- 3.a) If you want to install rlab someplace other than
- /usr/local, then type `make prefix=/usr/someplace/else' (if
- you did not use the --prefix option with configure).
-
- 3.b) Type `make Test'. This run rlab through some simple tests
- to verify correct behavior.
-
- 4.) Type `make -n install' and verify that the install process is to
- your liking.
-
- 4.a) If you want to install rlab someplace other than
- /usr/local, then type `make prefix=/usr/someplace/else -n install'.
- prefix should match whatever was used in step 3.a.
-
- 5.) Type the make-command used in step 4 or 4a without the `-n'
- option.
-
- 6.) Enjoy ...
-
- 7.) Send bug reports to ians@eskimo.com, or to the mailing list at
- rlab-list@eskimo.com. If you want to subscribe to the mailing list
- send mail to ians@eskimo.com.
-
- IN CASE OF EMERGENCY: If the make does not proceed through
- installation without problems, then human intervention will be
- required. The files created by configure (Makefile and config.h)
- can be edited by hand, or Makefile.dist (cp to Makefile), and
- config.h.dist (cp to config.h) can be edited to achieve a
- compileable rlab. These files are supposed to have enough comments
- to allow installers to figure out the correct options.
-
- See the file PROBLEMS for solutions to some commonly encountered
- difficulties.
-
- Please send report(s) of any compilation or installation
- difficulties to ians@eskimo.com.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
- NOTES:
-
- F2C LIBS:
-
- If you use the f2c translated numerical libraries, and you do not
- use the f2c Fortran libraries, you will most likely have trouble
- during the final link of the executable. Unfortunately, most
- vendors have been unable to refrain from gratuitously modifying
- libF77.a, and libI77.a. To solve this problem get the f2c
- distribution from netlib (netlib.att.com, in netlib/f2c), or from
- prep.ai.mit.edu (in pub/gnu).
-
- FORTRAN:
-
- RLaB is used on many machines without a Fortran compiler. This is
- made possible by the AT&T f2c project. However, some users have a
- Fortran compiler, and even specially optimized versions of the BLAS
- subroutines. If you wish to link with Fortran compiled (or vendor
- supplied) libraries, you are on your own. I would like to make this
- process simpler in the near future but, at the moment it is not
- reccommended, unless you are knowledgeable about C - Fortran
- interfaces. If you are knowedgeable about C - Fortran interfaces,
- then you may wish to give it a try:
-
- 0) Get and build ALL of the libraries with a Fortran compiler.
- You will need the double precision version of fftpack (send
- me mail if you don not have it). The remaining libraries
- are available from netlib.
- 1) Run configure
- 2) Edit the generated Makefile.
- a) Comment out the rules for lp.o and bl.o
- b) Uncomment the fule for .f.o
- c) Set the value of F77
- d) Edit the value of FLIBS. This is tougher than it
- may seem at 1st. Each platform tends to be
- different. If you are successfull, please send me
- the FLIBS definition that works. I will keep a list
- to make it easier on others in the future.
- e) Set the value for FCONV
- 4) You may need to change the typedefs in fi.h to suit your
- particular Fortran compiler. Most Fortran compilers do not
- use long ints (but f2c does).
- 3) Type make
-
- Some tested platforms...
-
- Sun, SunOS 5.3 (Solaris 2.3):
- FLIBS = -L/opt/SUNWspro/SC3.0/lib -lF77 -lM77 -lsunmath
- FCONV = -DUSE_F2C
-
- Sun SunOS 4.1.2
- FLIBS = -L/usr/lang/SC1.0 -lF77
- FCONV = -DUSE_F2C
-
- DEC-Ultrix-RISC:
- FLIBS = -L. -lF77 -lI77 -lUfor -lfor -lutil \
- -lots -L/usr/lib/cmplrs/fort -li_31
- FCONV = -DUSE_F2C
-
- AIX v3.2:
- FLIBS = -L. -lxlf -lxlfutil
- FCONV = -DUSE_LOWER
- You will need to make sure that -lc appears before any
- numercial libs
-
- DEC-Alpha:
- FLIBS = -L. -lfor -lUfor -lFutil -lots -lm -lc
- FCONV = -DUSE_F2C
-
- Titan P3000:
- FLIBS = -L. -lF77 -lI77 -lUmF77 -lubF77 -liF77
- FCONV = -DUSE_UPPER
-
- Watch out for things like:
-
- a) Linking to Fortran versions of getenv(). On some machines
- you may have to put -lc at the head of the library list.
-
- PLOTTING:
-
- A builtin plotting capability is in work. To make RLaB with the new
- plotting functions you must have the PLPLOT library. PLPLOT is
- freely available. You can get PLPLOT from hagar.ph.utexas.edu in
- pub/plplot. If you have a double precision version of the PLPLOT
- library configure may find it and turn on the plotting capability.
- At present configure searches for libplplotdX.a and libplplotdtk.a.
- If you have a PLPLOT library under some other name, then edit the
- Makefile variable PLIBS and PLIB_DIR to reflect the correct
- library, and then edit config.h so that HAVE_RLAB_PLPLOT is
- defined. See the file plplot.r for more information on how to use
- the plotting functions. Also take a look at examples/plot_test.r
- for Plplot examples.
-
- As an alternative to PLPLOT RLaB can use its built-in piping and
- file I/O capabilities to get data to most plot programs fairly
- easy. There is a sample Rlab program in a file called
- toolbox/gnu_plot.r that uses these capabilities to interactively
- make plots by running GNUPLOT as a sub-process. To use this
- function (plot()), you must have the GNUPLOT program somewhere in
- your PATH. If you don't have GNUPLOT, or wish to use some other
- plotting program feel free to modify the plot() interface to suit
- your needs.
-
- I recommend that you use GNUPLOT version 3.2 or higher. Versions
- before 3.2 tend to break the input stream when an input error
- occurs, thus making plotting intolerant of user errors.
-
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-
- This is a generic INSTALL file for utilities distributions.
- If this package does not come with, e.g., installable documentation or
- data files, please ignore the references to them below.
-
- To compile this package:
-
- 1. Configure the package for your system. In the directory that this
- file is in, type `./configure'. If you're using `csh' on an old
- version of System V, you might need to type `sh configure' instead to
- prevent `csh' from trying to execute `configure' itself.
-
- The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
- various system-dependent variables used during compilation, and
- creates the Makefile(s) (one in each subdirectory of the source
- directory). In some packages it creates a C header file containing
- system-dependent definitions. It also creates a file `config.status'
- that you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration.
-
- Running `configure' takes a minute or two. While it is running, it
- prints some messages that tell what it is doing. If you don't want to
- see the messages, run `configure' with its standard output redirected
- to `/dev/null'; for example, `./configure >/dev/null'.
-
- To compile the package in a different directory from the one
- containing the source code, you must use a version of `make' that
- supports the VPATH variable, such as GNU `make'. `cd' to the directory
- where you want the object files and executables to go and run
- `configure'. `configure' automatically checks for the source code in
- the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'. If for some reason
- `configure' is not in the source code directory that you are
- configuring, then it will report that it can't find the source code.
- In that case, run `configure' with the option `--srcdir=DIR', where
- DIR is the directory that contains the source code.
-
- By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
- /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/man, etc. You can specify an
- installation prefix other than /usr/local by giving `configure' the option
- `--prefix=PATH'. Alternately, you can do so by consistently giving a value
- for the `prefix' variable when you run `make', e.g.,
- make prefix=/usr/gnu
- make prefix=/usr/gnu install
-
- You can specify separate installation prefixes for
- architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If
- you give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH' or set the
- `make' variable `exec_prefix' to PATH, the package will use PATH as
- the prefix for installing programs and libraries. Data files and
- documentation will still use the regular prefix. Normally, all files
- are installed using the regular prefix.
-
- Another `configure' option is useful mainly in `Makefile' rules for
- updating `config.status' and `Makefile'. The `--no-create' option
- figures out the configuration for your system and records it in
- `config.status', without actually configuring the package (creating
- `Makefile's and perhaps a configuration header file). Later, you can
- run `./config.status' to actually configure the package. You can also
- give `config.status' the `--recheck' option, which makes it re-run
- `configure' with the same arguments you used before. This option is
- useful if you change `configure'.
-
- Some packages pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options to `configure',
- where PACKAGE is something like `gnu-libc' or `x' (for the X Window System).
- The README should mention any --with- options that the package recognizes.
-
- `configure' ignores any other arguments that you give it.
-
- If your system requires unusual options for compilation or linking
- that `configure' doesn't know about, you can give `configure' initial
- values for some variables by setting them in the environment. In
- Bourne-compatible shells, you can do that on the command line like
- this:
- CC='gcc -traditional' DEFS=-D_POSIX_SOURCE ./configure
-
- The `make' variables that you might want to override with environment
- variables when running `configure' are:
-
- (For these variables, any value given in the environment overrides the
- value that `configure' would choose:)
- CC C compiler program.
- Default is `cc', or `gcc' if `gcc' is in your PATH.
- INSTALL Program to use to install files.
- Default is `install' if you have it, `cp' otherwise.
-
- (For these variables, any value given in the environment is added to
- the value that `configure' chooses:)
- DEFS Configuration options, in the form `-Dfoo -Dbar ...'
- Do not use this variable in packages that create a
- configuration header file.
- LIBS Libraries to link with, in the form `-lfoo -lbar ...'
-
- If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, we encourage
- you to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and
- mail diffs or instructions to the address given in the README so we
- can include them in the next release.
-
- 2. Type `make' to compile the package. If you want, you can override
- the `make' variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS like this:
-
- make CFLAGS=-O2 LDFLAGS=-s
-
- 3. If the package comes with self-tests and you want to run them,
- type `make check'. If you're not sure whether there are any, try it;
- if `make' responds with something like
- make: *** No way to make target `check'. Stop.
- then the package does not come with self-tests.
-
- 4. Type `make install' to install programs, data files, and
- documentation.
-
- 5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
- source directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
- Makefile(s), the header file containing system-dependent definitions
- (if the package uses one), and `config.status' (all the files that
- `configure' created), type `make distclean'.
-
- The file `configure.in' is used as a template to create `configure' by
- a program called `autoconf'. You will only need it if you want to
- regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'.
-