INSTALL(1) INSTALL(1)
NAME
install - notes about Plan 9 from User Space installation
SYNOPSIS
cd /usr/local/plan9; ./INSTALL [ -b | -c ] [ -r path ]
DESCRIPTION
To obtain the Plan 9 tree, use Git (see git(1)) or download
a tar file from https://9fans.github.io/plan9port.
The tree can be unpacked anywhere, but the usual place is
/usr/local/plan9. In the root of the tree, run ./INSTALL.
This script builds the Plan 9 build program mk(1) if neces-
sary, cleans all previously built object files and libraries
out of the tree, rebuilds and installs everything, and then
cleans up.
There are a few files in tree which have the root hard-coded
in them. After the build, INSTALL edits these files to
replace the string /usr/local/plan9 with the name of the
root of the current tree.
Finally, INSTALL builds an HTML version of the manual and
installs it in /usr/local/plan9/man.
The installation can be thought of as two steps: build all
the binaries, and then edit files as necessary to fix the
references to the installation root. If necessary, these
can be run separately. Given the -b flag, INSTALL performs
only the first step. Given the -c flag, INSTALL performs
only the second step. The first step can be done with the
tree in a temporary work directory, but the second step must
be done once the tree is in its final location. If you want
to build the project in one location and then install into
another location, use -r path to specify the final location
of Plan9 tree. These flags are only necessary when trying
to conform to the expectations of certain package management
systems.
At the end of the installation, INSTALL prints suggested
settings for the environment variables $PLAN9 and $PATH.
Plan 9 from User Space uses different threading implementa-
tions on Linux 2.6 and later kernels than on 2.4 and ear-
lier; and on FreeBSD 5 and later kernels than on FreeBSD 4
and earlier. Running binaries from one class on another
will not work.
Some Linux 2.6 systems (e.g., Gentoo) do not use the new
NPTL pthread library even though the kernel supports them.
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On these systems, plan9port must fall back on the threading
code intended for Linux 2.4. To accomplish this, INSTALL
checks whether the running system uses NPTL and sets
SYSVERSION in /usr/local/plan9/config accordingly. The file
/usr/local/plan9/LOCAL.config is appended to config after
this auto-detection and can be used to override the choices.
If LOCAL.config contains a line WSYSTYPE=nowsys then the
system is built without using X11.
On most Linux systems, the X11 header packages need to be
installed to build using X11. On Debian. the required pack-
ages are libx11-dev, libxext-dev, and libxt-dev. On Ubuntu,
it suffices to install xorg-dev.
INSTALL can safely be repeated to rebuild the system from
scratch.
Once the system is built for the first time, it can be main-
tained and rebuilt using mk(1). To rebuild individual com-
mands or libraries, run mk install and mk clean in the
appropriate source directory (see src(1)).
FILES
/usr/local/plan9/lib/moveplan9.files
the list of files that need to have /usr/local/plan9
edited out of them
/usr/local/plan9/lib/moveplan9.sh
the script that edits the files
/usr/local/plan9/src/mkmk.sh
the shell script used to build mk(1)
/usr/local/plan9/dist/manweb
the shell script that builds the HTML manual
/usr/local/plan9/man/index.html
the top-level page in the HTML version of the manual
/usr/local/plan9/install.log
logged output from the last run of INSTALL
/usr/local/plan9/install.sum
a summary of install.log
SEE ALSO
intro(1), git(1)
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