The Book of Infinity
Software
www.skarnet.org

How to install the Book of Infinity

Like any other piece of software (and information generally), the Book of Infinity 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

Run-time

No dependencies.

Installation

This edition of the Book of Infinity follows the slashpackage convention.

• Create a /package directory:

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

• Download the latest version of the Book's primary cauldron, infinity-0.12sp.tar.gz, into /package.
• Unpack the Book:

       tar -zxpvf infinity-0.12sp.tar.gz
       # if you do not have GNU tar, check with your gunzip and tar manual pages.
       rm infinity-0.12sp.tar.gz
       cd host/packages.skarnet.org/infinity-0.12sp
  

• If you want to use another compiler and linker than the default, edit conf-compile/conf-cc and conf-compile/conf-ld as needed.
• Compile and set up the Book:

       package/install
  

  or perform package/compile to compile it, then look into the command subdirectory and copy the infinity binary where you need it.
• To report success :

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

• You can then delete the compile subdirectory to save disk space.