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Copyright (c) 2012 Moinak Ghosh
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Basic Installation
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==================
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The simplest process to build and install this utility is:
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./config
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make
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make install
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In order to remove all binaries:
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make clean
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Remove all binaries and the generated Makefile:
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make distclean
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Strictly speaking the 'make install' step is not required to
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run the utility as it is a single stand alone program for now.
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The config script controls various compile time parameters and
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generates the actual Makefile. You can get a short description
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of all the options by running:
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./config --help
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NOTE: Basic Installation does not enable support for Libbsc, a
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new block-sorting compressor (similar to but better than
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Bzip2). See below for details.
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Testing
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=======
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After running make as given above you can run:
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make test
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This will generate some data files from /usr/bin /usr/share and
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/usr/include directories and then run a whole lot of tests. These
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execute pcompress with a wide variety of combinations of options.
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For every test both compression and decompression are performed
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and after every decompression the decompressed file is verified
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byte for byte with the original using the diff utility.
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It takes a while to run all the tests.
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Custom Installation
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===================
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The options to the config script are detailed below. Note that this is
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not the usual GNU Autoconf script.
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./config [<options>]
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<options> can be one of the following:
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--prefix=<val> The installation prefix.
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This is set to /usr by default. However alternate
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prefix needs to eb used during packaging.
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--enable-debug Enable debug mode compilation.
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This reduces the compiler optimization level to
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basic and taks out all the loop optimization flags.
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This is primarily to aid debugging.
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--disable-allocator Disable use of internal memory allocator mechanism.
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The internal allocator can be totally disabled by
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setting this build time flag. It is also possible
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to dynamically disable the allocator by setting the
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following env variable:
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ALLOCATOR_BYPASS=1
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--enable-debug-stats Enable printing of some verbose debug info.
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This at present shows some info related to Dedupe
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efficiency.
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--with-libbsc=<path_to_libbsc_source>
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Enable support for libbsc (See: libbsc.com). Full
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path to the libbsc source tree must be provided. It
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links the library statically.
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--help Display the help message.
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Steps for building with libbsc support
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1) Download libbsc source from: http://libbsc.com/ . Click on the
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"Download TAR Ball" button. Downloading the 3.1.0 release from the
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Github project download page will Not work.
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2) Extract the gzippped tarball. It will create a directory for example:
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IlyaGrebnov-libbsc-0b12f29
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3) Now cd into the pcompress directory and execute the config script
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with the full path to the libbsc source directory. For example:
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./config --with-libbsc=/full/path/to/IlyaGrebnov-libbsc-0b12f29
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4) Now run make in the pcompress directory. This will also run make in
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the libbsc source directory to build it.
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