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install:install_legacy [2019/01/26 11:02] – ↷ Page moved from howto:install_legacy to install:install_legacy oroehriginstall:install_legacy [2019/01/26 12:15] – added section on configuration oroehrig
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   * [[http://www.mpfr.org/|MPFR library]] 3.0.0+ . Again both shared libraries and development stuff are required.   * [[http://www.mpfr.org/|MPFR library]] 3.0.0+ . Again both shared libraries and development stuff are required.
  
 +==== Configuration of Version 2.9.8 ====
 +The next step after unpacking the tar ball is <code>make configure</code> polymake is **not** based on autoconf, it rather tries to gain as much information as possible from the system ''perl'' configuration; for the rest it will ask you.  The questions can be divided into three groups:
 +  - installation locations
 +  - C/C++ compiler choice and options
 +  - Java related stuff
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 +The location chosen for the ''polymake'' start script should be one contained in your (and your colleagues') ''PATH'' . If you don't like this, you can later define a shell alias pointing to the start script.  Unlike old versions, there are no other executables in polymake that should be accessible via ''PATH'', as the whole former clients have been transformed into library functions.
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 +//Beware// that the directory which you build ''polymake'' in and the one which you want ''polymake'' to install to must be distinct and not contained in one another.
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 +Having run ''make configure'' once, you get a new subtree ''build.ARCH'', where ''ARCH'' is usually an abbreviation of your hardware platform as reported by ''uname -m'' .  There resides a file ''conf.make'' which can be manually edited, if necessary.  If you subsequently repeat the configuration step on several hardware platforms (e.g. 32-bit and 64-bit Intel/AMD CPU), polymake will reuse most of the answers given for the first platform as default settings.
  
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