Installing Bassist v0.8

System Requirements

Bassist uses GNU Autoconf for installation. This does not mean it is portable to systems other than our local Linux boxes; it could be, but at this time we're giving no guarantees. We are using Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 with kernel version 2.0.35, GNU g++ version egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release). Non-EGCS versions of g++ won't probably work. (If you are afraid of using a non-official compiler, please note that EGCS will become the next official version of GCC.)

Installation

1. Select some directories. The easy way is to simply select a root directory for the installation -- /usr/local is a popular choice, and indeed the Autoconf default. All of the directories mentioned below have reasonable default values under the root directory.
   • The library directory, e.g. /usr/local/lib. This directory will hold the Bassist library libBassist.a.
   • The include directory, e.g. /usr/local/include/bassist. There are several include files corresponding to the Bassist library, so we suggest having a separate directory for them (and not mix them with other include files).
   • The Bassist templates directory, e.g. /usr/local/share/bassist. The templates are architecture-independent data files used by the Bassist compiler.
   • The binary directory which will hold the executable Bassist compiler, e.g. /usr/local/bin.
   • The manual directory where the Bassist manual page will be installed, e.g. /usr/local/man.
2. Download and unpack the Bassist distribution bassist-0.8.20.tar.gz.
3. Run configure. Usually, you will give it one argument: --prefix /installation/root/dir, substituting your installation root directory for /installation/root/dir. Other possible arguments are

   --exec_prefix

   The prefix for executable files. This is only useful for multi-architecture installations.

   --bindir

   The binary directory.

   --datadir

   The shared data directory. The Bassist templates will go in a directory called bassist under the data directory.

   --libdir

   The library directory.

   --includedir

   The include files directory. The Bassist include files will go in a directory called bassist under this one.

   --mandir

   The manual directory.

4. Run make.
5. Run make install. This is where you will need any special privileges (for installing in /usr/local, for example). Please feel free to do make -n install first to see what's going to happen.
6. You can also say make uninstall should you ever feel unhappy about your choice of MCMC software, or, more realistically, in preparation for installing the next version.