Re: Swarm help (what are these packages for

[Paul Johnson]

Kanagaraj Krishna wrote:
> Hi,
>    I'm sorry that i have to mail you again but I cannot access the swarm mailing list. Before this i use to put in the address myself to access the list till December 2002 (reason the page had problems.....only showing list till May). But now i can't access for January 2003 using 
> http://www.santafe.edu/projects/swarm/archive/list-archive.0301/index.html    
>
> The reason given by the webmaster was that the maintainance is being taken over 
> by another university.
>
> I need to know what does these files below do, (why needed?, function?):

Pretty much everything I know is already explained here:

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH8.0/

>                 blt-2.4u-7.i386.rpm 
required, can get from RH 7.3 disk. blt is used to make graphs.

> 		gcc-3.2-7.i386.rpm 
some version of gcc is required.  That's the C compiler

>                 gcc-objc-3.2-7.i386.rpm
some version of this is required, objective C compiler

>                 hdf5-1.4.4-1RH80.i386.rpm
required for my rpms.  hdf5 is a data storage library

>                 libgcc-3.2-7.i386.rpm
some version is required. GCC requires this runtime shared library

> 		libobjc-3.2-7.i386.rpm 
I don't remember this, but some version is necessary

>                 swarm-2.1.141.20021019-2RH8.0.i386.rpm
looks like my rpm, required for swarm.

>                 swarm-gcjswarm-2.1.141.20021019-2RH8.0.i386.rpm
not required, optional. It uses the gnu java compiler, rather than the 
SUN jdk.  Usage is explained:

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.x_RPMSforRH7/

>                 swarm-jdk-2.1.141.20021019-2RH8.0.i386.rpm
not required, but if you want to run java swarm with the SUn JDK-1.4.1, 
this is needed.

>                 jikes
required. It is a java compiler. can get from the RH7.3 disk.

>                 glibc-devel
required

> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Kana


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