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- Thank you for purchasing the Power Tools CDROM.
-
- The Power Tools CDROM is designed to allow you to search for and/or
- install the already built (binary) packages for any supported system
- (SCO UNIX, DEC Alpha, Sun 4, Sun Solaris, IBM RS/6000 and HP
- 9000/700) with minimal effort. In addition, sources for all packages
- is included along with patches and BUILD scripts to assist in
- rebuilding any of the packages.
-
- Please note that the Power Tools book contains references to scripts
- with "dots" in their names (e.g. "cleanup.sed"), the installation system
- refers to these with "underscores" (e.g. "cleanup_sed"), but will
- install them as they appear in the book (with dots).
-
- Complete instructions should have accompanied your Power Tools Book and
- CDROM. Here is a brief synopsis of the installation instructions.
-
- To install executable versions of the packages, simply execute
- "INSTALL.PT" (which is found in the root directory of the CDROM).
- INSTALL.PT will attempt to determine the mount point of the CDROM and
- the machine type of your hardware. If INSTALL.PT determines these
- incorrectly, you may set the following environment variables.
-
- CDROM - typically /cdrom
-
- MACHINE
- set MACHINE to one of the following:
- i386 - SCO Unix
- alpha - DEC Alpha with Digital Unix
- rs6000 - IBM Risc System/6000
- linux - Linux
- sun4c - Sun Sparc with SunOS 4.1.x
- hp700 - HP 9000 series 700
- solaris - Sun Sparc with Solaris
-
-
- To rebuild any of the packages, there exists a script for each
- package. The BUILD scripts read the sources from the CDROM and do the
- actual building in a subdirectory of the current working directory
- (this directory will have the same name as the package and will be
- created by the BUILD script). For example, to rebuild "cvtbase" you
- would execute:
-
- /cdrom/BUILD.PT cvtbase
-
- or something similar if your cdrom is not mounted at /cdrom.
- The BUILD scripts also make use of the following environment variables
- (in addition to MACHINE):
-
- SOURCEDIR - typically /cdrom/SOURCES
- INSTALLDIR - defaults to /usr/local
- INSTALLSHAREDIR - defaults to /usr/local/share
- SHAREPREFIX - defaults to ""
- RM - defaults to ""
-
- If the RM variable is set, then the directory which is created for the
- build is removed upon completion of the build (even if the build
- fails).
-
- Most BUILD scripts use "patch" so you will probably want to make sure
- that patch is installed before running BUILD.
-
- If your mount command mounts the files in <cdrom>/<MACHINE>/BIN as either
- suid or sgid, then you will want to use the "-o nosuid,nosgid" options if
- your version of mount supports them.
-
- If you are using an SCO UNIX machine and get a "killed" message when
- trying to run the installation system, please read the readme file in
- the i386 directory.
-
-
- Ready-to-Run Software, Inc.
- 4 Pleasant Street
- Westford, MA 01886
-
- Phone 978 692 9922
- FAX 978 692 9990
-