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- /* Copyright (c) 1994 Sun Wu, Udi Manber, Burra Gopal. All Rights Reserved. */
- This is version 3.5 of the glimpse package - a tool to search
- entire file systems. Please send any comments to glimpse@cs.arizona.edu.
- Check the file CHANGES for the changes since version 3.0 (there are
- many of them). The files glimpse.1, glimpseindex.1, and
- glimpseserver.1 are the manual pages.
-
- Instructions for installing glimpse, glimpseindex, glimpseserver, and agrep:
-
- 1. Both the agrep and index directories have individual Makefiles
- which you can use independently. You can make everything
- by just typing make in the root glimpse directory.
-
- 2. To make individual binaries in a subdirectory "ddd", do the following:
- cd ./ddd ; make ; cd ..
-
- 3. To rebuild everything from scratch, do the following:
- make clean
- This however does not remove the binaries that currently exist in ./bin
- You can then proceed with the above steps. However, see (4) below.
-
- 4. A small quirk when making clean: if you make clean from the glimpse-root
- directory, it will cleanup all subdirectories except the subdirectory
- "libtemplate". You must do:
- cd libtemplate ; make clean ; cd ..
- to cleanup that subdirectory. This was necessary so that Glimpse's
- makefiles could be kept independent of "libtemplate"'s makefiles (which
- are a part of the Harvest source distribution).
-
- 5. Binaries for SunOS, Solaris, and Dec Alpha OSF/1 are currently
- available for version 3.5. Binaries for other platforms are
- available for 3.0, and will soon be posted for 3.5.
- (NOTE: we provide Solaris, Dec OSF/1, HP, Linux, NeXT, IBM-RS6000 and
- SGI makefiles. To compile for these platforms, use:
- make -f Makefile.solaris
- or
- make -f Makefile.alpha
- or
- make -f Makefile.hp
- or
- make -f Makefile.linux # (can work for FreeBSD too)
- or
- make -f Makefile.NeXT
- or
- make -f Makefile.rs6000
- or
- make -f Makefile.sgi
- respectively).
-
- We will try to make this more convenient in the future by distributing an
- autoconf script so that the individual makefiles will not be necessary.
- (We have a script "configure" in our distribution but we haven't tested
- it as much as we would have liked: however, it MAY work on your system.)
-
- NOTES:
- ------
-
- People in our mailing list have commented that the make files we provide
- work on many other architectures too. We recommend that you do a pairwise
- "diff" of these makefiles to find out whether they support the options you
- need before trying to modify makefiles to suit your environment. Often a
- few changes to compiler options, etc., are enough to port glimpse to a
- new architecture / OS. Source code modifications are usually not necessary.
-
- We request you to mail us any changes to the Makefile (or the source) that
- are necessary to port glimpse to your architecture, and the corresponding
- binaries, so that we can include it in our distribution. We will appreciate
- any suggestions and will duly acknowledge all contributions.
-
- Some comments about portability:
- --------------------------------
-
- 6. You must define HAVE_DIRENT_H in agrep/Makefile, index/Makefile, compress/Makefile
- to be 1 or 0 depending on whether your machine has /usr/include/dirent.h
- or /usr/include/sys/dir.h. We found that on most machines/OSs like SunOS4.1,
- Solaris, Ultrix, AIX, OSF/1, HPUX and SGI IRIX 5.3, HAVE_DIRENT_H should be 1.
- On NeXT, HAVE_SYS_DIR_H should be 1 (the rest should be 0).
-
- 7. On Solaris, "RANLIB" should be define to be "true" in
- agrep/Makefile.solaris and compress/Makefile.solaris.
-
- 8. On Solaris (at least the version we have), the library archive
- program "ar" is in /usr/ccs/bin/ar instead of /usr/bin/ar.
- You must define "AR" in agrep/Makefile.solaris and compress/Makefile.solaris
- appropriately or set your PATH to include the appropriate directory name.
-
- 9. On Solaris you have to link the glimpse executables with the
- socket and nls libraries by specifying "-lsocket" and "-lnsl" to the
- make rules for "glimpse" and "glimpseserver".
-
- 10. On the DEC ALPHA and HP, the make variable "CC" was changed from
- "gcc" to "cc".
-
- 11. If you have the utime() routine and <utime.h>, define the make variable
- UTIME to 1 in glimpse/Makefile and compress/Makefile. Else define it to 0.
-
- 12. If you want to support the international character set (ISO_CHAR_SET), define
- the make variable ISO_CHAR_SET to 1 in glimpse/Makefile. Else define it to 0.
-
- 13. If you have the function strerr() on your system, #define HAVE_STRERROR to 1
- in libtemplate/autoconf.h, else #undef it (or leave the definition in /**/).
- This is necessary on some BSD systems (some of our users have said so)
- and on NeXT (Gerald Wildgruber, gewil@ue801be.ppp).
-
- 14. If you need to add any new macros or flags, you can edit the file:
- glimpse/agrep/config.h
- and add whatever is needed to make porting easy on your machine / OS.
- This file is included throughout glimpse source code.
-
- 15. On BSD, it may be necessary to define DONTUSESORT_T_OPTION in the
- Makefile for glimpseindex since -T in some BSD systems is defined as
- an alternative record separator rather than to specify a directory
- other than /tmp to store sort-temporary files.
-
-
- Porting to other platforms, special contributions:
- --------------------------------------------------
- We provide and maintain the binaries for the following platforms:
- a. SUNOS4.1.1
- b. SUNOS4.1.3
- c. Solaris 5.3
- d. Dec OSF/1 Alpha
- You can address all questions regarding them to "glimpse@cs.arizona.edu".
-
- With glimpse-3.0, we are also distributing the following binaries/Makefiles
- that some of the people in our mailing list have sent us. We would like to
- extend special thanks to them for providing us with binaries for platforms for
- which we do not have access. We request you to contact them if you need any
- porting tips to these platforms or have any questions regarding these binaries.
-
- Platform ported to Person to contact
- e. AIX-3.2.5 stamer@merlin.physik.uni-oldenburg.DE (Heinrich Stamerjohanns)
- f. HPPA, HPMC68K Chris Dalton <crd@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- g. IBM-RS6000 "CHRISM" <cmelikian@VNET.IBM.COM> (0)
- h. Linux Jim Hurley <hurleyj@arachnaut.org>
- i. SGI "Piroz Mohseni" <mohseni@shemp.tip.ameslab.gov>
- j. NeXT gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu
-
- Thanks for your interest in glimpse.
-
- Udi Manber, Burra Gopal, and Sun Wu.
-
-