Quick Start


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Here is a set of steps for setting up and minimally testing sowing. Details and instructions for a more thorough tour of sowing's features, including installing, validating, benchmarking, and using the tools, are given in the following sections.

    1. If you have gunzip, get sowing.tar.gz; otherwise, get sowing.tar.Z by anonymous ftp from ftp.mcs.anl.gov in the directory pub/sowing.
    2. gunzip -c sowing.tar | tar xovf - or zcat sowing.tar.Z | tar xovf -
    3. cd sowing
    4. configure This will attempt to choose an appropriate default architecture and ``device'' for you. If the defaults are not what you want, see Section Configuring sowing . If you are not going to install sowing, give configure the argument --enable-inplace.
    5. make >& make.log (in C-shell syntax). At this point you have built the sowing programs.
    6. (Optional) Run the tests (See Section Thorough Testing for how to do this).
    7. (Optional) If you wish to install sowing in a public place so that others may use it, use
      make install 
    
    to install sowing. Following standard practice with configure, the directories for the installation are chosen when you use configure with the --prefix and --datadir options.
In the following sections we go through these steps in more detail, and describe other aspects of the sowing distribution you might want to explore.



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