Version 2.1 shipped after May 5, 1997 have a new Master Makefile in the oases root directory $HOME/oases, which automatically detects the platform type and sets compiler options accordingly. The only modification needed to this file is the specification of the bin and lib directories for the executables and libraries, respectively. The defaults are $HOME/oases/bin and $HOME/oases/lib. For Linux platforms a few aditional changes may necessary, as described below. The entire package is installed by the statement
make all
which will recursively execute all the individual makefiles in the package.
The makefile $HOME/oases/Makefile uses the environment variable HOSTTYPE to determine compiler flags, library paths etc., with the following supported:
alpha DEC Alpha workstations
decstation DEC RISC workstations (e.g. 5000/240)
sun4 SUN SPARC workstations
i386-linux PC platforms running Linux
iris4d SGI workstations
Any other platform is easily added by editing Makefile as described in the following section.
Once the package is built, include the executable directory in your path, e.g. in your .login file:
set path = ( $OASES_BIN $path )