Working on Swarm RPMS: was Re: Swarm 2.0 Available

[Paul E. Johnson]

OK, I've gotten some emails about the RPMS and I want to tell everybody
the same thing. I'm working on it. There is a good chance they can be
ready for testing at end of business Monday Aug 30.  A couple of people
volunteered to test them, and when those work you will be able to find
them here
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.0_RPMSforRH6

I will provide the rpms that are needed except for the ones that are
part of the standard redhat distribution, with one exception.  From the
RedHat distribution, you need to have the compiler (egcs and egcs-objc),
tcl/tk, libXpm, XFree86-devel, blt, and kaffe.  I will provide for you
RPMS for Swarm2.0, libffi, and hdf5 (there's a new beta version needed
for Swarm2.0). 

Now for the one exception.  There is a slight complication with the
built-in java kit called "kaffe". It should be fine for users of the
RPM, but there is some little glitch in it that makes it impossible for
me to compile the RPM with it. So I had to use a java compiler called
jikes  from IBM, which is free, comes precompiled, and compiles very
high quality code.  I'm making jikes a requirement for the RPM, but
users can override that dependency by adding the --nodeps option.  If
you override that requirement, you can make swarm programs run by making
one change in one swarm script file.  (For specificity, edit the
/usr/bin/javacswarm script after  installing the RPM. Replace "jikes"
with "javac".  

Since the Kaffe version of the compiler, javac, does not work to build
swarm, people who want to cook their own Swarm would be well warned to
use jikes or get the alternate JDK from www.blackdown.org.

PJ

Juan Julian Merelo Guervos wrote:
> 
> Would it be possible to have the "required" software in .rpms, or
> pointers to where it can be found? gcc 2.95.1 is probably too new to
> have an RPM, but the rest should be in RPMs..
> 
> J
> 
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