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This section gives instructions for the Installation of PSL 4.2 on your UNIX system. It does not apply for other operating systems such as VMS, MVS, DOS etc, and it does not apply for distribution on diskettes (e.g. all PC systems, IBM RS/6000, NeXT). Please read special instructions (below) for the system mentioned above.
The Installation procedure described below uses csh syntax. If you don’t have csh installed on your system, please change the commands accordingly.
PSL is stored as a single file tree with two directories on the top level, called bin and dist, where the later contains all sources and some more binary files.
The installation is relatively simple.
The tape contains a compressed file tree. Please cd to the directory where you want to store the files (called PSL root directory later on) and enter
Please replace /dev/tape in the above command with the correct name of your tape drive.
The PSL file tree for the IBM RS/6000 is configured in the same way as for other Unix type workstations. The installation needs an additional step.
The installation procedure described below assumes that you use the C-Shell. If you use different shells please change commands accordingly.
To read the tape, make a directory with a name like .../psl, cd to that directory, and do, after putting the tape into the drive,
You first need to install a syscall into the AIX system. In order to do this, YOU NEED SUPER USER PRIVILEGE. To install the syscall, do
The script install compiles and installs the required system call. The script installsysc in the same directory installs the system call only. With any reboot of the system it is mandatory to run installsysc in the directory ./dist/kernel/ibmrs/syscall. It is suggested that this is included into the AIX boot files. The sources of the syscall can be found in ./dist/kernel/ibmrs/syscall too.
The PSL file tree for LINUX is compressed on to 3 diskettes for distribution. The 3 diskettes require about 4 megabytes of disk space to dump. However, you must then rebuild the binary files for your machine before you can do anything. Instructions on doing this are given below. If the files for your machine are built, the file tree then requires about 30 megabytes during the build (but less when complete).
To read the diskettes, make a directory with a name like .../psl, cd to that directory, and do, after putting DISK # 1 into the floppy disk reader,
The script install_psl prompts for the other disks and will uncompress the files.
If there is an incompatibility between the delivered exeutable and your Linux version, or when you upgrade your Linux version and PSL becomes inoperable, you must recompile the executable bpsl:
After this step you should rebuild the image files using the scripts in $psl/distrib.
In the next step the system must get knowledge about the PSL root directory and the machine
architecture. The correct name for the architecture in the PSL file tree can be found in the table
below.
The script dist/distrib/newroot.csh will modify various Makefiles and scripts, especially
dist/psl-names. It must be started with the PSL root directory and MACHINE name as
parameter, e.g. for a Sparc under SUNOS:
After that the file dist/psl-names contains the settings for the PSL specific environment variables
such as $psys. It must be read in by the PSL user to insure correct operation,e.g. for a Sparc
machine under SunOS:
This installation is designed for usage with multiple machine types, it saves disk space by
sharing the PSL code (.sl files). The variable MACHINE is used to specify the machine type. If
you install a single version of PSL it may be useful to replace MACHINE by the correct value
in the file < PSLrootdirectory >/dist/psl-names. In this case the user does not need to specify
the MACHINE environment variable.
To test the installation, you can try the following commands which are supposed to run without
error message:
If you change files, e.g. when you receive a bug fix, please put the file into the correct place , cd
to the directory $psl and simply say make. This will compile the file (and maybe some files
which depend on this), and produce new binaries.
The documentation for PSL (User’s Manual and some more documents) can be found in
the directories dist/doc and dist/lpt and dist/manual (in LATEX or plain ASCII print
format)
26.1.4 Customizing Makefiles and scripts
Machine Operating system PSL MACHINE name
CDC 4xxx EP/IX mips_cdc ++
Convex Cxxxx convex ++
Convex SPP convex_spp
Cray 1, X-MP UNICOS crayxmp
Cray Y-MP UNICOS crayymp
Cray C90 UNICOS crayymp
Cray T3D/E UNICOS cray_t3d
DECStation ULTRIX Mips_dec
DEC Alpha OSF/1 (DEC Unix) Alpha
DEC Alpha Linux Alpha_Linux
DEC VAX ULTRIX vax
DG AViiON DG-UX 88k-aviion ++
HP9000/300 400 HP-UX bobcat ++
HP9000/700 HP-UX Snake
HP9000/800 HP-UX spectrum ++
IBM RS/6000 Aix Ibmrs
IBM SP2 (the RS/6000 version happens to work)
Intel 386 Linux Linux
Intel 386 ELF Linux (ELF) Linux_elf
Intel x86 Solaris 2.x Solarisx86
SGI Iris/Indigo Irix Mips_iris
SGI Iris/Indigo Irix64 Mips_iris_64
Sun 3 SunOS sun ++
Sparc SunOS (Solaris1.x) Sun4
Sparc Solaris 2.x Solaris
UltraSparc Solaris 2.x Ultrasparc
++ This version may be not supported in future version.
dist/distrib/newroot.csh ‘pwd‘ Sun4
setenv MACHINE Sun4
source <PSL root directory>/dist/psl-names
$psys/psl
(load inum)
(quit)
26.1.5 Printing Documentation
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