SoulSpark
Software
skarnet.org

How to install SoulSpark

Like any other piece of software (and information generally), SoulSpark comes with NO WARRANTY.

Requirements

System

• A Unix-like system

Build-time

• A standard C development environment
• The skalibs package, version 0.45 or higher
• The conn-tools package, version 0.21 or higher

Run-time

• The ucspi-tcp package, version 0.88 or higher
• (recommended) The daemontools package, version 0.76 or higher
• (recommended) The execline package, version 1.06 or higher

Installation

SoulSpark follows the slashpackage convention.

• Create a /package directory:

       mkdir -p /package
       chmod 1755 /package
       cd /package
  

• Download the latest version of SoulSpark, SoulSpark-0.12.tar.gz, into /package.
• Unpack the SoulSpark package:

       tar -zxpvf SoulSpark-0.12.tar.gz
       # if you do not have GNU tar, check with your gunzip and tar manual pages.
       rm SoulSpark-0.12.tar.gz
       cd host/epita.fr/SoulSpark-0.12
  

• If you want to use another compiler and linker than the default, edit conf-compile/conf-cc and conf-compile/conf-ld as needed. Edit conf-compile/conf-stripbins if you need to change the way the binaries are stripped.
• Then compile and set up SoulSpark:

       package/install
  

• To report success :

  	 cat package/name package/version sysdeps/sysdeps sysdeps/sysdeps.h | mail ska-sysdeps@skarnet.org
  

• You can then delete the compile subdirectory to save disk space.
• An example service directory is provided in the service subdirectory, for daemontools or runit users. Edit it to suit your needs.
  SoulSpark has been designed to work under a supervisor. It's possible, but unreliable, to use its components as standalone programs.