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
    What basically happens is that specially marked-up data in the LON-CAPA cvs repository file doc/loncapafiles.html is parsed into a more viewable format by loncom/build/parse.pl. The resulting file gives a very well organized view of all the files, directories, links, ownerships, permissions, and brief documentation of what each file does.

  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)