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<LI><A HREF="#Prequisites">Prerequisites</A>
<LI><A HREF="#Installation">Installation</A>
<LI><A HREF="#Code">Code development and user environment</A>
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<h2><A HREF="#Content" NAME="Prerequisites">Prerequisites</A></h2>

<h3>Environment</h3>

<p> The code is actively maintained on Linux and HP (both CC and aCC
compilers). It also runs on Compaq OSF1 and SunOS. We welcome feedback from
the installation on other systems and we will be happy to consider 
modifications and corrections necessary to make the installation possible.

<p> The disk space required for a full installation of AliRoot is 360MB for
the system itself and 120MB for the ROOT system.

<h3>gmake</h3>

<p> The installation is performed via the <kbd>
<a href="http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/manual/make-3.77/make.html">
gmake</a></kbd> program. <kbd>gmake</kbd> is the 
<a href="http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu">GNU</a> version of make, it is free and,
if missing on your machine, it can be loaded from the GNU Internet site 
<a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/make">
ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/make</a>. <kbd>gmake</kbd> is compatible
with the standard UNIX <kbd>make</kbd> and on the CERN ion WGS
<kbd>make</kbd> is aliased to <kbd>gmake</kbd>. The only files you need for 
<kbd>gmake</kbd> are the executable <kbd>gmake</kbd>
and the script <kbd>autoconf</kbd>, therefore you can copy such files from
any site in a directory in your path.

<h3>ROOT</h3>

<p> <em>ROOT</em> is available for many platforms, therefore in most cases
no <em>ROOT</em> installation is required. To install ROOT on your machine,
connect to the <a href="http://root.cern.ch">web site</a> and follow the
link <em>downloads</em>. Usually you should get the latest release, unless
announced differently by the news of the Off-line Project.

<p> All you need to do is download the compressed tar file, that usually is
called <var>root_v...tar.gz</var>uncompress and untar it (we supposed you
downloaded the tar file in your <var>$HOME</var>):

<p><kbd>
$ gunzip root_v...tar.gz
<br>$ cd <i>directory</i> # name of the directory where you want ROOT to sit
<br>$ tar xvf ~/root_v...tar
</kbd>

<p> When tar ends, you will have the full root directory tree, with already
installed libraries for your platform. 

<p> The following shell variables should be defined in the login scripts:

<p><table align=centre borders=no>
<tr><th align=left>variable</th><th align=left>value</th></tr>
<tr><td width=50%>ROOTSYS	       </td><td> <i>directory</i>/root
<tr><td colspan=2><i><center>on all systems but HP-UX</center></i></td></tr>
<tr><td>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</td>
<td>$LD_LIBRARY_PATH\:$ROOTSYS/lib</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=2><i><center>on HP-UX</center></i></td></tr>
<tr><td>SHLIB_PATH</td>
<td>$SHLIB_PATH\:$ROOTSYS/lib</td></tr>
<tr><td>PATH</td>
<td> $PATH\:$ROOTSYS/bin </td></tr>
</table>


<h2><A HREF="#Content" NAME="Installation">Installation</A></h2>

<ol> 
<p><li> Install <a href="http://root.cern.ch">ROOT</a> and define the
necessary variables correctly.

<p><li> Decide where the code will reside (from here on <i>directory</i>).

<p><li>Define the following global variables in the login script

<p><table align=centre borders=no>
<tr><th align=left>variable</th><th align=left>value</th></tr>
<tr><td width=30%>ALICE	       </td><td> <i>directory</i>
<tr><td>ALICE_LEVEL		</td><td> pro </td></tr>
<tr><td>ALICE_ROOT		</td><td> $ALICE/$ALICE_LEVEL </td></tr>
<tr><td>ALICE_TARGET		</td><td> `uname` 
(i.e. result of the Unix <b>uname</b> command)</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=2><i><center>on all systems but HP-UX</center></i></td></tr>
<tr><td>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</td>
<td>$ALICE_ROOT/lib/tgt_${ALICE_TARGET}\:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=2><i><center>on HP-UX</center></i></td></tr>
<tr><td>SHLIB_PATH</td>
<td>$ALICE_ROOT/lib/tgt_${ALICE_TARGET}\:$SHLIB_PATH</td></tr>
<tr><td>PATH</td>
<td> $PATH\:$ALICE_ROOT/bin/tgt_${ALICE_TARGET} </td></tr>
</table>

<p>At this point you should logout, login again and check that the symbols
are set correctly.

<p><li> Retrieve the AliRoot code. This code is available under 3 main
    versions (old, pro and new). Check <a href="../releases.html"> the
    Releases page </a> to select the appropriate version and get
    the corresponding CVS Tag.
    There are two ways to retrieve the code: the
    preferred way consists in retrieving a tar file on the ftp server and the
    slow and network consuming way is checking out the whole cvs tree using
    cvs. Cvsup may be available soon as an alternative.
    
<ul> 
<p><li> <em>From a tar file</em>. Tar files
    for the different releases including an up-to-date file remade
    every night are available on the 
    <a href="http://AliSoft.cern.ch/offline/download/offline/">
    Web server</a>. The tar files include the
    "CVS" subdirectories for the anonymous cvs user (login "cvs"). So after
    getting the full tar file, it is possible to incrementally update
    the code using cvs.

    <p> The tar file(s) can to be unpacked into the ALICE directory
    via the command: 
    
    <p><pre>$ gtar xvfz V3.XX.tar.gz</pre>
    
    <p> A script <a href="ftp://alisoft.cern.ch/pub/misc/">changeCVSRoot</a>
    is available to convert a CVS tree under user "cvs" to another
    user. For example, <pre> ChangeCVSRoot asmith </pre>
    
<p><li> <em>From cvs remote cvs server</em>.  The setup for the access
    to the remote cvs server is described in the
    <A HREF="/offline/development.html#Code">Code Development section</A>.
    The code can be downloaded via the following commands:
    
<p><pre>
$ cd $ALICE
$ setenv CVSROOT :pserver:cvs@alisoft.cern.ch:/soft/cvsroot
$ cvs co -r Release-3-XX -d pro AliRoot
</pre>

<p><li> <em> Update </em> In both cases running a cvs update command
    will update the latest changes to the code in the selected branch
    (here branch "Release-3-XX"). So, for a full update, including
    the automatic creation a new subdirectories, the commands are:
<p><pre>
$ cd $ALICE/pro
$ setenv CVSROOT :pserver:cvs@alisoft.cern.ch:/soft/cvsroot
$ cvs update -d
</pre>

</ul>

<p><li>install the CERN library part

<p><pre>
$ cd $ALICE_ROOT
$ gmake cernlibs
</pre>

<p><li>Install the ALICE specific software

<p><pre>
$ cd $ALICE_ROOT
$ gmake
</pre>

<p><li>Copy the file $ALICE_ROOT/.rootrc to your home directory

<p><li>For users with c-like shells, update your search path:

<p>
<pre>
$ rehash
</pre>

<p>This usually has to be done only once, after having defined the new PATH.

<p><li>Change to your home directory and run the code

<p>
<pre>
$ cd
$ aliroot

<output from aliroot>

root [1] .x menu.C
</pre>
</ol>

<h2><A HREF="#Content" NAME="Code">Code development and user environment</A></h2>

<p>If the ALICE environment is set up correctly, the
<var>$ALICE_ROOT/lib/tgt_$ALICE_TARGET</var> directory is in the shared
libraries load path, and the <var>$ALICE_ROOT/bin/tgt_$ALICE_TARGET</var>
directory is in the PATH variable. This means that the command
<kbd>aliroot</kbd> will in fact correspond to the file
<var>$ALICE_ROOT/bin/tgt_$ALICE_TARGET/aliroot</var>.

<p>This is convenient for the normal user, but as soon as the user wants to
modify one or more directories, this arrangement becomes inefficient
because if a local copy of one of the shared libraries is remade, the
linker will always find the official unmodified one that sits in the above
directory before the local one in the load library path. Moreover, and
unless the full path is specified, the local version of the <b>aliroot</b>
executable will be ignored and the official version executed.

<p>Therefore in order to develop one or more packages locally
(let's say the TPC) and make modifications, the following steps should be
performed. The remote cvs server use and setup is explained in the <a
href="../development.html">code development</a> section.  

<p><table id="wide" cellspacing=10%>
 <tr align=center>
  <th colspan=2>
    <hr><br>
    <font size=+1>Preparation of the environment</font>
    <br><hr>
 <tr align=left>
  <th width=30%>$ mkdir AliRoot
  <td width=50%>create the working directory
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ cd AliRoot
  <td>set default to it
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ mkdir pro
  <td>create pro subdirectory
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ cd pro
  <td>set default to it
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ ln -s $ALICE_ROOT/* ./
  <td>link all files here
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ rm lib 
  <td>remove link for library, we need a local file here to containing the new
      TPC library
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ rm bin
  <td>remove bin, we need a local copy of the <var>aliroot</var>
      executable
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ mkdir bin
  <td>make a local bin directory 
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ rm CVS
  <td>remove the link to the CVS directory, we need a local one
      to check-out files
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ rm TPC
  <td>remove link for TPC subdirectory, we need the real files here
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ rm ALIROOT
  <td>remove link to ALIROOT subdirectory, may be this is not really necessary
      on all systems, but we do it just to be on the safe side
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ cvs co -r Release-3-XX TPC
  <td>get from the cvs server the release version of the TPC files to be
      modified
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ cvs co -r Release-3-XX ALIROOT
  <td>get from the server the release version of the ALIROOT files to recreate
      the executable
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ mkdir -p lib/tgt_$ALICE_TARGET
  <td>create library directory
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ cd lib/tgt_$ALICE_TARGET
  <td>set default to the lib directory
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ ln -s $ALICE_ROOT/lib/tgt_$ALICE_TARGET/* ./
  <td>link all libraries here
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ rm libTPC.sl (on HP)
  <br>$ rm libTPC.so (on the other systems)
  <td>remove link to TPC library, we need a real one
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ changeRoot $HOME/AliRoot
  <td>change the AliRoot root to $HOME/AliRoot via the <em>changeRoot</em> command
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ rehash
  <td>make sure that the new PATH is taken into account by the shell
 <tr align=center>
  <th colspan=2>
    <hr><br>
    <font size=+1>Normal development cycle</font>
    <br><hr>
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ cd $ALICE_ROOT/TPC
  <td>(1) set default to TPC directory
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ make macroclean
  <td>clean up all objects
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ emacs AliTPCv1.cxx
  <td>(2) edit all the files...
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ make
  <td>(3) recreate ../lib/libTPC.sl
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ cd ../ALIROOT
  <td>set default to ALIROOT directory
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ make macroclean
  <td>clean up object files
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ make
  <td>make new executable
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ cd <em>directory</em>
  <td>(4) set default elsewhere
 <tr align=left>
  <th>$ aliroot
  <td>(5) run aliroot
 <tr align=center>
  <th colspan=2>
    <hr>
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<p>Steps 1-5 are the normal development cycle after the first pass through the 
procedure.

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4c505702	40	<H2><A NAME="#Content">Content</A></H2>
4c505702	41	<UL>
b813c727	42	<LI><A HREF="#Prequisites">Prerequisites</A>
4c505702	43	<LI><A HREF="#Installation">Installation</A>
	44	<LI><A HREF="#Code">Code development and user environment</A>
	45	</UL>
	46
	47	<HR>
	48
b813c727	49	<h2><A HREF="#Content" NAME="Prerequisites">Prerequisites</A></h2>
	50
	51	<h3>Environment</h3>
	52
	53	<p> The code is actively maintained on Linux and HP (both CC and aCC
	54	compilers). It also runs on Compaq OSF1 and SunOS. We welcome feedback from
	55	the installation on other systems and we will be happy to consider
	56	modifications and corrections necessary to make the installation possible.
	57
241c61af	58	<p> The disk space required for a full installation of AliRoot is 360MB for
241c61af	59	the system itself and 120MB for the ROOT system.
b813c727	60
	61	<h3>gmake</h3>
	62
	63	<p> The installation is performed via the <kbd>
	64	<a href="http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/manual/make-3.77/make.html">
	65	gmake</a></kbd> program. <kbd>gmake</kbd> is the
	66	<a href="http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu">GNU</a> version of make, it is free and,
	67	if missing on your machine, it can be loaded from the GNU Internet site
	68	<a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/make">
	69	ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/make</a>. <kbd>gmake</kbd> is compatible
	70	with the standard UNIX <kbd>make</kbd> and on the CERN ion WGS
	71	<kbd>make</kbd> is aliased to <kbd>gmake</kbd>. The only files you need for
	72	<kbd>gmake</kbd> are the executable <kbd>gmake</kbd>
	73	and the script <kbd>autoconf</kbd>, therefore you can copy such files from
	74	any site in a directory in your path.
	75
	76	<h3>ROOT</h3>
	77
	78	<p> <em>ROOT</em> is available for many platforms, therefore in most cases
	79	no <em>ROOT</em> installation is required. To install ROOT on your machine,
	80	connect to the <a href="http://root.cern.ch">web site</a> and follow the
	81	link <em>downloads</em>. Usually you should get the latest release, unless
	82	announced differently by the news of the Off-line Project.
	83
	84	<p> All you need to do is download the compressed tar file, that usually is
	85	called <var>root_v...tar.gz</var>uncompress and untar it (we supposed you
	86	downloaded the tar file in your <var>$HOME</var>):
	87
	88	<p><kbd>
	89	$ gunzip root_v...tar.gz
57386c20	90	<br>$ cd <i>directory</i> # name of the directory where you want ROOT to sit
57386c20	91	<br>$ tar xvf ~/root_v...tar
b813c727	92	</kbd>
4c505702	93
b813c727	94	<p> When tar ends, you will have the full root directory tree, with already
	95	installed libraries for your platform.
	96
	97	<p> The following shell variables should be defined in the login scripts:
	98
	99	<p><table align=centre borders=no>
	100	<tr><th align=left>variable</th><th align=left>value</th></tr>
	101	<tr><td width=50%>ROOTSYS </td><td> <i>directory</i>/root
	102	<tr><td colspan=2><i><center>on all systems but HP-UX</center></i></td></tr>
	103	<tr><td>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</td>
	104	<td>$LD_LIBRARY_PATH\:$ROOTSYS/lib</td></tr>
	105	<tr><td colspan=2><i><center>on HP-UX</center></i></td></tr>
	106	<tr><td>SHLIB_PATH</td>
	107	<td>$SHLIB_PATH\:$ROOTSYS/lib</td></tr>
	108	<tr><td>PATH</td>
	109	<td> $PATH\:$ROOTSYS/bin </td></tr>
	110	</table>
	111
	112
	113	<h2><A HREF="#Content" NAME="Installation">Installation</A></h2>
14c31136	114
	115	<ol>
	116	<p><li> Install <a href="http://root.cern.ch">ROOT</a> and define the
	117	necessary variables correctly.
	118
	119	<p><li> Decide where the code will reside (from here on <i>directory</i>).
	120
	121	<p><li>Define the following global variables in the login script
	122
	123	<p><table align=centre borders=no>
	124	<tr><th align=left>variable</th><th align=left>value</th></tr>
	125	<tr><td width=30%>ALICE </td><td> <i>directory</i>
	126	<tr><td>ALICE_LEVEL </td><td> pro </td></tr>
	127	<tr><td>ALICE_ROOT </td><td> $ALICE/$ALICE_LEVEL </td></tr>
	128	<tr><td>ALICE_TARGET </td><td> `uname`
	129	(i.e. result of the Unix <b>uname</b> command)</td></tr>
	130	<tr><td colspan=2><i><center>on all systems but HP-UX</center></i></td></tr>
	131	<tr><td>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</td>
	132	<td>$ALICE_ROOT/lib/tgt_${ALICE_TARGET}\:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH</td></tr>
	133	<tr><td colspan=2><i><center>on HP-UX</center></i></td></tr>
	134	<tr><td>SHLIB_PATH</td>
	135	<td>$ALICE_ROOT/lib/tgt_${ALICE_TARGET}\:$SHLIB_PATH</td></tr>
	136	<tr><td>PATH</td>
	137	<td> $PATH\:$ALICE_ROOT/bin/tgt_${ALICE_TARGET} </td></tr>
	138	</table>
	139
	140	<p>At this point you should logout, login again and check that the symbols
	141	are set correctly.
	142
2b6b41be	143	<p><li> Retrieve the AliRoot code. This code is available under 3 main
	144	versions (old, pro and new). Check <a href="../releases.html"> the
	145	Releases page </a> to select the appropriate version and get
	146	the corresponding CVS Tag.
	147	There are two ways to retrieve the code: the
	148	preferred way consists in retrieving a tar file on the ftp server and the
dfd3e71f	149	slow and network consuming way is checking out the whole cvs tree using
2b6b41be	150	cvs. Cvsup may be available soon as an alternative.
78fbaa94	151
14c31136	152	<ul>
241c61af	153	<p><li> <em>From a tar file</em>. Tar files
78fbaa94	154	for the different releases including an up-to-date file remade
241c61af	155	every night are available on the
	156	<a href="http://AliSoft.cern.ch/offline/download/offline/">
	157	Web server</a>. The tar files include the
78fbaa94	158	"CVS" subdirectories for the anonymous cvs user (login "cvs"). So after
	159	getting the full tar file, it is possible to incrementally update
	160	the code using cvs.
	161
dfd3e71f	162	<p> The tar file(s) can to be unpacked into the ALICE directory
78fbaa94	163	via the command:
	164
	165	<p><pre>$ gtar xvfz V3.XX.tar.gz</pre>
	166
	167	<p> A script <a href="ftp://alisoft.cern.ch/pub/misc/">changeCVSRoot</a>
	168	is available to convert a CVS tree under user "cvs" to another
dfd3e71f	169	user. For example, <pre> ChangeCVSRoot asmith </pre>
78fbaa94	170
dfd3e71f	171	<p><li> <em>From cvs remote cvs server</em>. The setup for the access
	172	to the remote cvs server is described in the
	173	<A HREF="/offline/development.html#Code">Code Development section</A>.
225aa380	174	The code can be downloaded via the following commands:
225aa380	175
14c31136	176	<p><pre>
14c31136	177	$ cd $ALICE
225aa380	178	$ setenv CVSROOT :pserver:cvs@alisoft.cern.ch:/soft/cvsroot
2b6b41be	179	$ cvs co -r Release-3-XX -d pro AliRoot
225aa380	180	</pre>
	181
	182	<p><li> <em> Update </em> In both cases running a cvs update command
	183	will update the latest changes to the code in the selected branch
2b6b41be	184	(here branch "Release-3-XX"). So, for a full update, including
225aa380	185	the automatic creation a new subdirectories, the commands are:
	186	<p><pre>
	187	$ cd $ALICE/pro
56993321	188	$ setenv CVSROOT :pserver:cvs@alisoft.cern.ch:/soft/cvsroot
225aa380	189	$ cvs update -d
14c31136	190	</pre>
	191
	192	</ul>
	193
	194	<p><li>install the CERN library part
	195
	196	<p><pre>
	197	$ cd $ALICE_ROOT
	198	$ gmake cernlibs
	199	</pre>
	200
	201	<p><li>Install the ALICE specific software
	202
	203	<p><pre>
	204	$ cd $ALICE_ROOT
	205	$ gmake
	206	</pre>
	207
	208	<p><li>Copy the file $ALICE_ROOT/.rootrc to your home directory
	209
29cbfde8	210	<p><li>For users with c-like shells, update your search path:
	211
	212	<p>
	213	<pre>
	214	$ rehash
	215	</pre>
	216
	217	<p>This usually has to be done only once, after having defined the new PATH.
	218
14c31136	219	<p><li>Change to your home directory and run the code
	220
	221	<p>
	222	<pre>
	223	$ cd
	224	$ aliroot
	225
	226	<output from aliroot>
	227
	228	root [1] .x menu.C
	229	</pre>
	230	</ol>
	231
4c505702	232	<h2><A HREF="#Content" NAME="Code">Code development and user environment</A></h2>
87ad6e14	233
	234	<p>If the ALICE environment is set up correctly, the
	235	<var>$ALICE_ROOT/lib/tgt_$ALICE_TARGET</var> directory is in the shared
	236	libraries load path, and the <var>$ALICE_ROOT/bin/tgt_$ALICE_TARGET</var>
481bb6ef	237	directory is in the PATH variable. This means that the command
481bb6ef	238	<kbd>aliroot</kbd> will in fact correspond to the file
87ad6e14	239	<var>$ALICE_ROOT/bin/tgt_$ALICE_TARGET/aliroot</var>.
	240
	241	<p>This is convenient for the normal user, but as soon as the user wants to
	242	modify one or more directories, this arrangement becomes inefficient
	243	because if a local copy of one of the shared libraries is remade, the
	244	linker will always find the official unmodified one that sits in the above
	245	directory before the local one in the load library path. Moreover, and
	246	unless the full path is specified, the local version of the <b>aliroot</b>
	247	executable will be ignored and the official version executed.
	248
	249	<p>Therefore in order to develop one or more packages locally
	250	(let's say the TPC) and make modifications, the following steps should be
56993321	251	performed. The remote cvs server use and setup is explained in the <a
56993321	252	href="../development.html">code development</a> section.
87ad6e14	253
5023a744	254	<p><table id="wide" cellspacing=10%>
	255	<tr align=center>
	256	<th colspan=2>
	257	<hr><br>
	258	<font size=+1>Preparation of the environment</font>
	259	<br><hr>
87ad6e14	260	<tr align=left>
	261	<th width=30%>$ mkdir AliRoot
	262	<td width=50%>create the working directory
	263	<tr align=left>
	264	<th>$ cd AliRoot
	265	<td>set default to it
	266	<tr align=left>
	267	<th>$ mkdir pro
	268	<td>create pro subdirectory
	269	<tr align=left>
	270	<th>$ cd pro
	271	<td>set default to it
	272	<tr align=left>
	273	<th>$ ln -s $ALICE_ROOT/* ./
	274	<td>link all files here
	275	<tr align=left>
481bb6ef	276	<th>$ rm lib
87ad6e14	277	<td>remove link for library, we need a local file here to containing the new
	278	TPC library
	279	<tr align=left>
	280	<th>$ rm bin
481bb6ef	281	<td>remove bin, we need a local copy of the <var>aliroot</var>
481bb6ef	282	executable
57386c20	283	<tr align=left>
94ce3382	284	<th>$ mkdir bin
94ce3382	285	<td>make a local bin directory
481bb6ef	286	<tr align=left>
	287	<th>$ rm CVS
	288	<td>remove the link to the CVS directory, we need a local one
	289	to check-out files
87ad6e14	290	<tr align=left>
	291	<th>$ rm TPC
	292	<td>remove link for TPC subdirectory, we need the real files here
	293	<tr align=left>
	294	<th>$ rm ALIROOT
	295	<td>remove link to ALIROOT subdirectory, may be this is not really necessary
	296	on all systems, but we do it just to be on the safe side
	297	<tr align=left>
2b6b41be	298	<th>$ cvs co -r Release-3-XX TPC
481bb6ef	299	<td>get from the cvs server the release version of the TPC files to be
481bb6ef	300	modified
87ad6e14	301	<tr align=left>
2b6b41be	302	<th>$ cvs co -r Release-3-XX ALIROOT
481bb6ef	303	<td>get from the server the release version of the ALIROOT files to recreate
481bb6ef	304	the executable
87ad6e14	305	<tr align=left>
	306	<th>$ mkdir -p lib/tgt_$ALICE_TARGET
	307	<td>create library directory
	308	<tr align=left>
	309	<th>$ cd lib/tgt_$ALICE_TARGET
	310	<td>set default to the lib directory
	311	<tr align=left>
94ce3382	312	<th>$ ln -s $ALICE_ROOT/lib/tgt_$ALICE_TARGET/* ./
87ad6e14	313	<td>link all libraries here
87ad6e14	314	<tr align=left>
5023a744	315	<th>$ rm libTPC.sl (on HP)
5023a744	316	<br>$ rm libTPC.so (on the other systems)
87ad6e14	317	<td>remove link to TPC library, we need a real one
	318	<tr align=left>
	319	<th>$ changeRoot $HOME/AliRoot
5023a744	320	<td>change the AliRoot root to $HOME/AliRoot via the <em>changeRoot</em> command
87ad6e14	321	<tr align=left>
	322	<th>$ rehash
	323	<td>make sure that the new PATH is taken into account by the shell
5023a744	324	<tr align=center>
	325	<th colspan=2>
	326	<hr><br>
	327	<font size=+1>Normal development cycle</font>
	328	<br><hr>
87ad6e14	329	<tr align=left>
	330	<th>$ cd $ALICE_ROOT/TPC
	331	<td>(1) set default to TPC directory
	332	<tr align=left>
	333	<th>$ make macroclean
	334	<td>clean up all objects
	335	<tr align=left>
	336	<th>$ emacs AliTPCv1.cxx
	337	<td>(2) edit all the files...
	338	<tr align=left>
	339	<th>$ make
	340	<td>(3) recreate ../lib/libTPC.sl
	341	<tr align=left>
	342	<th>$ cd ../ALIROOT
	343	<td>set default to ALIROOT directory
	344	<tr align=left>
	345	<th>$ make macroclean
	346	<td>clean up object files
	347	<tr align=left>
	348	<th>$ make
	349	<td>make new executable
	350	<tr align=left>
	351	<th>$ cd <em>directory</em>
	352	<td>(4) set default elsewhere
	353	<tr align=left>
	354	<th>$ aliroot
	355	<td>(5) run aliroot
5023a744	356	<tr align=center>
	357	<th colspan=2>
	358	<hr>
87ad6e14	359	</table>
	360
	361	<p>Steps 1-5 are the normal development cycle after the first pass through the
	362	procedure.
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