From: vsr Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 06:30:39 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Update documentation (for RedHat 9.0). X-Git-Tag: SALOME_V_2_2_1~12 X-Git-Url: http://git.salome-platform.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=30c794dc359677f10ee389608bab0995eeabda98;p=tools%2Finstall.git Update documentation (for RedHat 9.0). --- diff --git a/doc/readme.html b/doc/readme.html index d4d755d..ae2c85a 100755 --- a/doc/readme.html +++ b/doc/readme.html @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ and KERNEL mo products version procedure Unfortunately under Linux platform there is no exact algorithm to identify the product's version. The table below contains the information relating -to checking preinstalled products for the Linux.RedHat 8.0 platform
+to checking preinstalled products for the Linux RedHat 8.0 platform
  @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ to checking preinstalled products for the Linux.RedHat 8.0 platform
- @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ version 2.2.0
-
ver should be 3.2 or newer
+
ver should be 3.2.
It is recommended to use native gcc on Linux RedHat 8.0
-

Note: For native products installation procedure sets proper environment +

Note: For native products installation procedure sets proper environment variables itself, and you do not need to set such variables like, e.g. TCLHOME or PYTHONHOME.
If you have native products installed to different from default directories @@ -551,6 +551,18 @@ version 2.2.0 description. Or you should set properly $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables before starting Installation Wizard. Otherwise installation script will fail to find preinstalled products.

+

Note: For some native products (e.g. gcc, Python) the rules of version +checking are not so strict as described in the table. Only major and minor numbers of version +should coincide with prerequisite. Release number can be larger. It is done for making a possibility +to use native products for newer versions of Red Hat (for example, Linux Red Hat 9 includes native +gcc 3.2.2 installation). +If native product has version number larger than that required by installation procedure, +you will be prompted by the warning message like this: "You have newer version of gcc installed +on your computer than that is required (3.2). Continue?". You can press "Yes" button +to procede with the installation but in this case you should be aware of what you are doing. +SALOME binaries (inluding other products) are compiled with the prerequisites from the list +and most likely can not be run successfully if this products are not found. +This can be only helpful if you intend to build all products from sources.