INSTALL

To build and install super-smack:

./configure --with-mysql --with-pgsql

if you have client libraries for both MySQL and PostgreSQL,
if you don't, keep only the one you have. You may need to specify the
directory explicitly if your client libraries are installed in some
unusual location, eg

./configure --with-mysql=/opt/mysql

If you want to have different locations for the examples directory and/or
data directory, you should use --with-smacks-dir and --with-datadir
respectively. Defaults are /usr/share/smacks and /var/smack-data.

You will need to do this if you do not have root on the machine.
In that case, you should also use --prefix option to change the installation
directory from /usr/local to some path where you can write.

make
su
make install

You may need to modify ownership and/or permissions on /var/smack-data if
you installed as root with defaults, but are running benchmarks as a
non-root Unix user ( recommended). The user you run super-smack as needs to
be able to write to the super-smack data directory ( /var/smack-data) - not
to be confused with MySQL data directory, which is something completely
different.

The build should go smoothly on Linux, with the exception of RedHat 7 with the
default compiler, which is full of bugs. If you have RedHat 7, uninistall the
supplied gcc (with C++ part), and install gcc 2.95.2 instead (with C++
support).

I have not yet done any specific ports, so it may need some tweaking of
the source to make it work on other platforms. Please email me the patches
that you needed to add for your system. When you are finished with the
build/install, read the tutorial and the manual.


--IF YOU'RE COMPILING UNDER SOLARIS:

I've not quite got the hange of creating configure scripts and such, so some fixes
will have to be done manually.  Here are the fixes necessary from Dan Price after ./configure is run to get super-smack 1.3 to build properly under Solaris:

		- Set your PATH to: /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin
          before running configure.  On FCS S10, I think this should get
          the right results.

        - You'll need to add '-lsocket -lnsl' to the link line of the
          src/Makefile after you've run configure.  (autoconf should
          take care of this but I didn't have time to work out how to
          make it do that).
          
          Your LIBS line in src/Makefile should end up like this:

          LIBS = -L/usr/sfw/lib/ -lcrypt -lz  -lsocket -lnsl

        - If you lose the copy of super-smack-yacc.cc which comes with
          the distro (i.e. if you type 'make clean'), bison may output
          strange C which doesn't compile properly.  Basically, if you
          get this error:

          y.tab.c:1783: error: expected primary-expression before "__attribute__"

          Then edit super-smack-yacc.cc and delete the offending line
          (the one containing the string "__attribute__"); it's a no-op
          anyway.