LON-CAPA Software Developer Instructions

  1. Using CVS
  2. Viewing the software (make HTML)
  3. Compiling the software (make build)
  4. Adding/removing files from the LON-CAPA installation (doc/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html)
  5. Configurable files versus non-configurable files
  6. Updating the non-configurable files on your machine (make install)
  7. Updating the configurable files on your machine (make configinstall)
  8. Building RPMs (make RPM)

  1. Using CVS

  2. Viewing the software (make HTML)

    Commands 
    cd loncom/build
rm -Rf HTML
make HTML
cd HTML
(look at the index.html file with a web browser such as Netscape)
    General description of what happens

    This is the actual make target code. 

    
HTML:
        install -d HTML
        cp ../../doc/loncapafiles/*.gif HTML
        perl parse.pl ../../doc/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html HTML > HTML/index
.html

  3. Compiling the software (make build)

  4. Adding/removing files from the LON-CAPA installation (doc/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html)

  5. Configurable files versus non-configurable files

  6. Updating the non-configurable files on your machine (make install)

  7. Updating the configurable files on your machine (make configinstall)

  8. Building RPMs (make RPM)