How to install symtools

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

Requirements

System

A Unix-like system

Build-time

A standard C development environment
The skalibs package, version 0.46 or higher.

Run-time

The execline package, version 1.06 or higher.

Installation

Create a /package directory:

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

Download the latest version of symtools, symtools-0.17.tar.gz, into /package.

Unpack the symtools package:

     tar -zxpvf symtools-0.17.tar.gz
     # if you do not have GNU tar, check with your gunzip and tar manual pages.
     rm symtools-0.17.tar.gz
     cd admin/symtools-0.17

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

     package/install

or perform package/compile to compile it, then look into the command subdirectory and copy the binaries where you need them.

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.