The keyboard of Barry S. Gamblin emitted at some point in time:
>
> Has anyone installed the IBM xlf and xlc compilers in an afs directory so
> that the software doesn't have to be installed on every machine that wants
> to use the compilers? Is this something doable?
To my knowledge you only have to provide the software (usually in
/usr/lpp, apart from the startup program in /usr/bin) and the
configuration files (/etc/lpp-name.cfg, including /etc/make.cfg)
IBM Fortran programs will return an error if they open a file read
write and encounter it on a read-only volume, other Fortran run time
systems usually wait until you actually start writing before zapping
you. This is not a problem for the compiler itself, as that uses c-io,
but it has proved a pain for packages which could not get hold of the
demonstration or default files.
Thomas
* email: cmaae47 @ imperial.ac.uk
