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- Compilation and installation instructions for Mindy.
-
- Compiling Mindy currently requires the use of an ANSI C compiler. We
- highly recommend gcc (GNU CC) if it is available. If you are using
- gcc, you must use gcc 2.6.0 or later.
-
- To configure Mindy for your system, simply type ``./configure'' and
- wait for configure to figure things out. When that is done, begin the
- compilation by typing ``make'' (or ``gmake'' if you have GNU make).
- After Mindy has been compiled, type ``make install'' to install it.
- (Note: you will need write permission for the directories that files
- are being installed to; see below)
-
- The default installation directory for executables is /usr/local/bin;
- for libraries it is /usr/local/lib/mindy. You can change the prefix
- for these paths from /usr/local to whatever by typing ``configure
- --prefix=whatever''. (It is not a good idea to specify the path name
- using a tilda (~) because tilda has a special meaning only in csh.
- make uses sh, so tildas probably won't do what you want them to)
-
- If you want to build Mindy in one-place while the sources are
- kept in another-place, then type ``cd one-place;
- another-place/configure --srcdir=another-place'' and configure will
- construct the appropriate directories and Makefiles.
-
- Other options may be provided directly to make:
-
- CC specifies the C compiler to use
- CCOPTS specifies options to pass to the C compiler
- YACC specifies the parser generator
- LEX specifies the lexer generator
- LFLAGS specifies the flags passed to LEX
-
- The default C compiler options (CCOPTS) are ``-g -O4
- -finline-functions -Wall'' if you are using gcc, ``-g -O'' otherwise.
- If you are not using gcc, we *highly* recommend you read the man page
- for your compiler and supply the flags that ask for the maximum
- optimization. (Note that on many compilers, -g, "generate debugging
- information", and -O, "optimize", are mutually exclusive. If you have
- to choose between the two, go with optimization.)
-
- Options can be passed to make by using environment variables: Using
- /bin/sh, ``VARNAME=option make -e'' (-e tells make to look at the
- environment variables). Under gmake, options can also be passed via
- the command line: ``gmake VARNAME=option''.
-
- You can clean up any previously made object files and executables
- with ``make clean''.
-
- Here's what a sample installation might look like:
- /bin/sh # Need the Bourne shell to pass options to make
- ./configure --srcdir=/usr/bob/mindy/src --prefix=/usr/bob/mindy
- CCOPTS="-g -O3" make -e
- make install
- exit # exit the shell you just launched
- This would install binaries to /usr/bob/bin, and library files to
- /usr/bob/lib/mindy.
-
- Mindy has been successfully built on the following platforms:
- Hardware OS Compiler
- -------- -- --------
- HP Apollo HPUX 9.03 gcc
- DEC pmax Mach 2.6 gcc
- DEC pmax Ultrix 4.x gcc
- SGI IRIX 4.0.5 gcc and sgi-cc
- SGI IRIX 5.2 sgi-cc
- Sun SunOS 4.11 gcc
- PC clone Linux gcc
-
- If you have successfully compiled Mindy on another architecture,
- please send mail to
- gwydion-bugs@cs.cmu.edu
- and we will add that architecture to the list. Please include the
- operating system version and what compiler you used. If changes were
- required, please send diffs as well.
-
- Mindy can *not* be built out of the box on the DEC Alpha. If you
- would like to port Mindy to the Alpha or any other architecture where
- Mindy does not easily compile for, send mail to
- gwydion-bugs@cs.cmu.edu and we will try to provide as much help as we
- can.
-
-
- Mindy Trouble Shooting Tips
-
-
- + When I went to `make install' I got permission denied errors.
-
- You need to be the super user to install into /usr/local. Become the
- super user, or ask you system admin to do it for you, or pick an
- unprivileged location, eg your home directory, and do the install
- there with `prefix=$HOME make -e install'.
-
- + When I tried `prefix=$HOME make -e install' the shell said
- `prefix=$HOME: Command not found'.
-
- You're running a C shell, while our instructions tell you how to pass
- local environment bindings using the Bourne shell (/bin/sh). You can
- run the standard /bin/sh and repeat the procedure, or you may set the
- environments globally with the C shell `setenv' command before running
- make.
-
- + When I went to `make install' I got `cannot unlink' errors.
-
- The install.sh script is trying to rename the files rather than
- copying them. Try `MVPROG=cp make install'.
-
- + When I went to `make' the compiler choked making compat/sigaction.o.
-
- Your machine does not have a POSIX signal handling package, and the
- default fallback to BSD signal handling didn't work either. You can
- try the System V emulation by adding -DUSG_SIGNALS to the options used
- to compile sigaction.o. Alternatively, there may be some magic word
- that is needed to open up the BSD compatability on your system. Look
- in /usr/include/signal.h and see if it gives any clues.
-
- + Everything went fine until the final linking step for mindy or
- mindycomp, then I got a message about undefined symbols.
-
- You've found a hole in our compat library. It could be easy or
- difficult to fix. Send mail to
- gwydion-bugs@cs.cmu.edu
- Please include the operating system version and what compiler you
- used.
-
- + I'm compiling Mindy, and I get this error:
- ld: driver.o: relocation format botch (symbol type))
- collect2: ld returned 4 exit status
-
- You are probably using a version of gcc earlier than 2.6.0. Get a
- newer version of gcc, or try a different compiler.
-