Installation Guide for sowing,Tools for developing and distributing programs

William Gropp and Ewing Lusk

This Guide corresponds to Version 0.1 of sowing. It was processed by LaTeX on Tue May 13 08:45:55 2003.

Tool building and distribution is important.

This document describes how to obtain and install sowing [1], a collection of portable tools for developing and distributing software. Details on using each of the tools is provided in separate users manuals [2,3,4].


Contents

  • Quick Start
  • Obtaining and Unpacking the Distribution
  • Documentation
  • Configuring sowing
  • Compiling sowing
  • Thorough Testing
  • Installing sowing for Others to Use
  • Installing documentation
  • Man pages
  • Web versions of man pages
  • Problems
  • Submitting bug reports
  • Problems configuring
  • General
  • Problems building sowing
  • General
  • SGI
  • DEC ULTRIX
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography