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The AMnet HOWTO

4. Compiling the AMnet software

4.1 Configuring the AMnet software

The compilation is started by calling ./configure from the directory amnet/. The script first tries to detect all the software packets mentioned in the previous sections. If this lookup fails, the directories of the missing components have to be given as a parameter to the configure script. The following options are available for the configure script:

--help

gives a list of all options

--kernel-dir

use this option to set up the path to the kernel sources, which you have patched for AMnet

--java-dir

option for configuring the (kaffe) JAVA path

--ldap-dir

option for configuring the location where you have installed the LDAP Communikation SDK for JAVA

--swing-dir

location of the swing directory

--with-jikes

if you have installed jikes on your system, you can use this option to tell the configure script where the jikes binary is installed; if you don't have installed jikes, then configure will use the javac command for the compilation of the AMnet sources

--no-jikes

if you prefer NOT to use jikes, you can use this option

4.2 Compiling the AMnet software

./configure creates the file Makefile.ARCH, whereas ARCH is the architecture used. After the directories have been configured, the environment variables have to be setup by calling the setup script with the command source setup.

All AMnet sub-directories are compiled by starting make. Errors during this process may be send to the mailing list at flexinet-support@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de. With make clean, the source tree is cleaned up.