README.configure

This is our first effort using a configure script for MSL. As such,
there may be many tips to learn and better ways to perform the
tests. If you have a problem with the configure script please send us
an email.

If you downloaded MSL from the MSL webpage, just run:

./configure
make

If configure does not find some of the libraries needed, but you know
they are installed in your system, use --with-LIB-includes=PATH and
--with-LIB-libs=PATH, in which PATH indicates the location of the
header files and the library files of the given LIB. Use ./configure
--help to know all the options available.

If you downloaded MSL from cvs:
To create the configure script use:

autoconf

You will need autoconf version 2.53 or newer.

Never, commit the ./configure file, since it is thousand lines
long. And anyway it is not that useful, since the important info is in
the configure.ac file (is like making a commit of a .o file). That
will only make sense for an official release.

NOTE:

I tried to build all this configure thing without breaking too much
the msl source code ;). The only changes of the msl source were when a
.h involved in the configure search is used. Now the changes where in
the headers fx.h, PQP.h and gl*.h. The headers may be found like
<PQP.h> or <PQP/PQP.h>. The configure script prefers the later case.

#include <fx.h>

was replaced by:

#include "../../configs/configFOX.h", and so on.


If something is not working as it should, email me at
<btovar@uiuc.edu>

Benjamin