How to use a VSSP public package

The average user needs the following minimum knowledge in order to use a VSSP package:
  1. The binaries and man pages are already in your path. [see /home/beren/beren1/system/CSHRC].
  2. To link to libraries you must: compile with gcc -I/vol/vssp/packages/inc and link with gcc -L/vol/vssp/packages/lib -lary -lLL -lgf

When something goes wrong

The author can update his package at any time, and consequently you may encounter a bug or other incompatibility due to the upgrade. In this case the last major release is available as a backup [ all architectures, but only thru /vol/vssp/src on beren ]
  1. To use the OLD binary use /vol/vssp/src/ht_PP/htPP_v3.4/bin.$ARCH/ht_PP instead of the ht_PP in your path which comes from /vol/vssp/packages/local/bin/ht_PP
  2. If something goes wrong with ONE library e.g. libgf.a then compile with gcc -I/vol/vssp/src/gf/gf_1.0/inc -I/vol/vssp/packages/inc and link with gcc -L/vol/vssp/src/gf/gf_1.0/lib.$ARCH -L/vol/vssp/packages/lib -lary -lLL -lgf

A.Stoddart@ee.surrey.ac.uk
August 1994