Re: [Swarm-Support] compiling Swarm for Linux - scared

[Paul Johnson]

You don't say what OS you have?

I'd use these RPMS I built for RedHat 9 if that is what you have:

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RH9.0/

If you use RH9, and you need to compile swarm yourself, here are some tips.

1) you can't use the gcc they deliver.  gcc-3.3 is needed. or 3.0.4. 
Just not 3.2
2) install jikes, tcl/tk, and the jdk from Sun. It is vital to have 
emacs, gperf, make, and it will complain what else you are missing. 
Last I checked, you need autoconf-2.52,which differs from the one they 
distribute.  I thing the automake 1.6.3 is OK, I think libtool 1.5 is OK.

3) get the src.rpm file I provide open it up, get the spec file. It 
shows all the specific commands that are used to build the beast. There 
is nothing to fear.

Marshall, James A R wrote:
> Hi,
>   looks like we're finally going to start using our high performance
> computer centre to run batches of our model. Unfortunately it looks like I'm
> going to have to get Swarm set up for our cluster, and it doesn't look like
> the appropriate binary is available. The prospect of compiling Swarm scares
> me from what I've heard of other people's troubles!
>   A couple of questions from those who have been this way before then:
> 1) I need at least Swarm-2.2 pretest 6, for Redhat 7.2. Should I get
> something straight from CVS? I can't see anything that looks like a
> Swarm-2.2 pretest on ftp.swarm.org
> 2) has anyone compiled instructions for how to compile for this OS beyond
> Paul Johnson's general guidelines in the FAQ?
> 3) any other useful hints that might save me some stress!?
>         James
>
> ---
> Dr James A R Marshall
> Complex Systems Modelling Group (COSMIC)

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