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Thank you for purchasing the Power Tools CDROM.
The Power Tools CDROM is designed to allow you to search for and/or
install the already built (binary) packages for any supported system
(SCO UNIX, DEC Alpha, Sun 4, Sun Solaris, IBM RS/6000 and HP
9000/700) with minimal effort. In addition, sources for all packages
is included along with patches and BUILD scripts to assist in
rebuilding any of the packages.
Please note that the Power Tools book contains references to scripts
with "dots" in their names (e.g. "cleanup.sed"), the installation system
refers to these with "underscores" (e.g. "cleanup_sed"), but will
install them as they appear in the book (with dots).
Complete instructions should have accompanied your Power Tools Book and
CDROM. Here is a brief synopsis of the installation instructions.
To install executable versions of the packages, simply execute
"INSTALL.PT" (which is found in the root directory of the CDROM).
INSTALL.PT will attempt to determine the mount point of the CDROM and
the machine type of your hardware. If INSTALL.PT determines these
incorrectly, you may set the following environment variables.
CDROM - typically /cdrom
MACHINE
set MACHINE to one of the following:
i386 - SCO Unix
alpha - DEC Alpha with Digital Unix
rs6000 - IBM Risc System/6000
linux - Linux
sun4c - Sun Sparc with SunOS 4.1.x
hp700 - HP 9000 series 700
solaris - Sun Sparc with Solaris
To rebuild any of the packages, there exists a script for each
package. The BUILD scripts read the sources from the CDROM and do the
actual building in a subdirectory of the current working directory
(this directory will have the same name as the package and will be
created by the BUILD script). For example, to rebuild "cvtbase" you
would execute:
/cdrom/BUILD.PT cvtbase
or something similar if your cdrom is not mounted at /cdrom.
The BUILD scripts also make use of the following environment variables
(in addition to MACHINE):
SOURCEDIR - typically /cdrom/SOURCES
INSTALLDIR - defaults to /usr/local
INSTALLSHAREDIR - defaults to /usr/local/share
SHAREPREFIX - defaults to ""
RM - defaults to ""
If the RM variable is set, then the directory which is created for the
build is removed upon completion of the build (even if the build
fails).
Most BUILD scripts use "patch" so you will probably want to make sure
that patch is installed before running BUILD.
If your mount command mounts the files in <cdrom>/<MACHINE>/BIN as either
suid or sgid, then you will want to use the "-o nosuid,nosgid" options if
your version of mount supports them.
If you are using an SCO UNIX machine and get a "killed" message when
trying to run the installation system, please read the readme file in
the i386 directory.
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