Installing sowing for Others to Use


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This step is optional. Once you have tested all parts of the Sowing distribution, you may install sowing into a publically available directory, and disseminate information for other users, so that everyone can use the shared installation. To install the libraries and include files in a publicly available place, choose a directory, such as /usr/local/sowing, change to the top-level sowing directory, and do

    make install 
The man pages will have been copied with the installation, so you might want to add /usr/local/mpi/man to the default system MANPATH. The man pages can be conveniently browsed with the mpiman command, found in the sowing/bin directory.

A good way to handle multiple releases of sowing is to install them into directories whose names include the version number and then set a link from sowing to that directory. For example, if the current version is 1.0, the installation commands to install into /usr/local are

configure --prefix=/usr/local/sowing-1.0 
make 
make install  
rm /usr/local/sowing 
ln -s /usr/local/sowing-1.1.0 /usr/local/sowing 



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