From a6473e699763c38d821c633f9ca0b7c6c3b2fc7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Niethammer Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 23:35:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated README file. --- README | 19 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index c7fb854..bd64c69 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -9,16 +9,19 @@ log files and installes them together with the softwre package. In its current version it can only install a package using a package class file including the necessary information -The package tree resides per default in the directory $SITi_PATH/packages. For +The package tree resides per default in the directory $SIT_PATH/packages. For convenience it should look like following $SIT_PATH/packages/CATEGORY/PACKAGE-VERSION The global configuration file of SIT is $SIT_PATH/etc/sit.conf It includes a variety of default values: -PREFIX_BASE -SRC_POOL -SCLASS_DIR +* PREFIX_BASE +* SRC_POOL +* SCLASS_DIR + +* DEFAULT_PLATFORM +* DEFAULT_COMPILER The installation process is currently controled with the following environment variables: @@ -26,6 +29,14 @@ variables: * COMPILER_VERSION * MPI * MPI_VERSION +* HOSTNAME + +Sit detects currently the build platform using the HOSTNAME variable. If sit +cannot determine the PLATFORM it uses the default platform specified in sit.conf. +For each platform configuration files are stored unter + $SIT_PATH/etc/platform-configs/$PLATFORM/* + +At the moment only compiler configurations are supported. To install a package simply call sit with the necessary information provided by