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© 1987-2005 Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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INTRODUCTION
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./pm
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...from the command line. This will actually do the build. This takes
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about two minutes on my 1.6GHz Athlon.
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about two minutes on my 1.6GHz Athlon Linux machine and about 30 on my
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166MHz Pentium OpenBSD machine.
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- Run:
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./pm install
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...from the command line. This will install the built ACK into whatever
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directory you nominated in PREFIX.
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...from the command line (possibly with sudo). This will install the built
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ACK into whatever directory you nominated in PREFIX.
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The ACK should now be ready to use.
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first character of the file. If it's a #, then the file will be run through
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- BSD systems may need to up the number of file descriptors (e.g.
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'ulimit -n 200') before the ACK will compile.
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- The ACK uses its own .o format. You won't be able to mix the ACK's object
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files and another compiler's.
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DISCLAIMER
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