How To Build TclGlobus

 

The installation procedure is divided into several steps.

Prerequisites

  • Platform Supported
    1. Solaris 9
    2. Solaris 10
    3. Fedora Core 3
    4. Fedora Core 4
    The above platforms should have installed the default GNU software packages such as GCC compiler, GNU Autoconf, GNU Automake and other developer packages. ou also need to install Fedora Core 4 packages for c++ support, gcc-c++ and libstd++-devel.

  • Required Components
    In order to install TclGlobus, the following components must be present in your system and can be gotten from the links below if needed.
    If the softwares have not been installed, please install them first before continuing with TclGlobus installation.
    TclGlobus has not been tested with older or newer version of the above softwares.

Download the Source

TclGlobus Alpha release version x.y.z source code nightly tarball distribution can be obtained from this link. Place the tarball in your home directory or you can create a new directory called tclglobus.

With the tarball distribution, all of the source code is contained in one large tar archive that has been compressed with GNU zip.

Then, issue the following commands to untar the sources

  • tar -zxvf tclglobus-x.y.z.tar.gz

This will create a subdirectory called tclglobus-x.y.z.

Build the Source

Issue the following commands:

  • cd tclgobus-x.y.z
  • mkdir Linux-i686
  • cd Linux-i686
  • ../configure [options]
    Use options to override several configure time options for TclGlobus.
    • --prefix=dirname
      dirname refers to the toplevel installation directory. This is the recommended way to install the tools into a directory other than the default. The toplevel installation directory defaults to /usr/local.
    • --with-globus=globus-location
      globus-location refers to the top level directory where Globus Toolkit was installed.
    • --disable-globus-threads
      Specify that threading support should be disabled.

Then, simply execute

  • make

Final Install

Once TclGlobus has been built successfully in the previous step, you can install it with

  • make install

Last modified: May 02, 2006