LON-CAPA Software Developer Instructions

• Using CVS
  • Logging in and out (cvs login; cvs logout)
  • Getting files (cvs update -d)
  • Updating files (cvs update -d)
  • Saving files (cvs commit)
  • Adding files (cvs add)
  • Adding directories (cvs add/import)
  • What to do when you're not sure about your files (cvs update)
• Viewing the software (make HTML)
• Compiling the software (make build)
• Adding/removing files from the LON-CAPA installation (doc/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html)
• Configurable files versus non-configurable files
• Updating the non-configurable files on your machine (make install)
• Updating the configurable files on your machine (make configinstall)
• Building RPMs (make RPM)