+cd loncom/build +rm -Rf HTML (or alternatively, "make clean") +make HTML +cd HTML +(look at the index.html file with a web browser such as Netscape) ++ +General description of what happens +
+This is the actual make target code.
+
+
+
+HTML:
+ install -d HTML
+ cp ../../doc/loncapafiles/*.gif HTML
+ perl parse.pl ../../doc/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html HTML > HTML/index.html
+
+
+
+What basically happens is that specially marked-up data in the LON-CAPA
+cvs repository file doc/loncapafiles.html is parsed into a more
+viewable format by loncom/build/parse.pl. The resulting
+file gives a very well organized view of all the files, directories,
+links, ownerships, permissions, and brief documentation of what each
+file does.
+
+cd loncom/build +make build ++ +General description of what happens +
+This is the actual make target code.
+
+
+
+build:
+ perl parse.pl ../../doc/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html build > Makefile.build
+ make -f Makefile.build all
+
+
+
+loncom/build/parse.pl reads in all the build information out
+of doc/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html. A new Makefile named
+loncom/build/Makefile.build is dynamically constructed.
+This dynamically generated Makefile is then run to build/compile
+all the software targets from source. This currently takes 10 minutes
+(depends on the speed of the machine you compile with).
+
+Here is information for one file tth.so provided in
+doc/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html.
+
+
+
+
+loncom/build/parse.pl sees the BUILD tags and sets up
+a dynamic file Makefile.build to run the command inside the
+BUILD tags (currently, DEPENDENCIES is not used for anything
+besides documentation).
+
<METAGROUP>
+
<LONCAPA TYPE=LOCATION DIST="redhat6.2" SOURCE="loncom/modules/TexConvert/tthperl/tth.so" TARGET="usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/tth.so" CATEGORY="system file">
+
<DESCRIPTION>
+
shared library file for dynamic loading and unloading of TeX-to-HTML functionality
+
</DESCRIPTION>
+
<BUILD>
+
loncom/modules/TexConvert/tthperl/commands
+
</BUILD>
+
<DEPENDENCIES>
+
../tthdynamic/tthfunc.c
+
../ttmdynamic/ttmfunc.c
+
</DEPENDENCIES>
+
+Here is an example of a dynamically generated Makefile.build
+that builds two LON-CAPA files (one of which is tth.so.
+
+
+all: ../homework/caparesponse/capa.so ../modules/TexConvert/tthperl/tth.so
+
+../homework/caparesponse/capa.so: ../homework/caparesponse/caparesponse.c ../ho
+mework/caparesponse/caparesponse.pm alwaysrun
+ cd ../homework/caparesponse/; sh ./commands
+
+../modules/TexConvert/tthperl/tth.so: ../modules/TexConvert/tthperl/../tthdynam
+ic/tthfunc.c ../modules/TexConvert/tthperl/../ttmdynamic/ttmfunc.c
+ cd ../modules/TexConvert/tthperl/; sh ./commands
+
+alwaysrun:
+
+
+