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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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