Simple Installation

These instructions assume you have a ``tarball'' (e.g. *.tar.gz file). We have volunteers who put together and manage RedHat RPMs and Debian *.deb distributions of Babel. If you have one of these distros, read their documentation first as it may have details that supersede our own.

A typical build is a simple sequence of

% ./configure -C
# lots of stuff
...
Fortran77 enabled.
C++ enabled.
Java enabled.
Python enabled.
Fortran90 enabled.
% make
# lots more stuff
...
% make install
# not so much stuff
...
The -C tells configure to cache its results in a file. This improves the overall speed of configuration because the runtime configure script reuses the results of the top-level configure.

There are many circumstances where the configuration step will properly terminate with an error, but if the configuration works, the build and installation shouldn't terminate abnormally. If you have problems or note bugs during configuration, installation or later Babel usage, please send an email to babel-bugs@cca-forum.org including the version of babel you are working with, if possible the output from babel-config -version-full, and the exact output that indicates the presence of a bug. babel-config is Bourne shell script that the configure creates in the bin directory. If your current directory is the top directory of the Babel distribution, normally you can invoke babel-config as follows:

% bin/babel-config -version-full



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