Patch Installer Notes
The patch install script looks
for a patch history file (ie. patch_hist120500.dat) in the user's Xspec/src directory.
If it can't find one it assumes no patches have been applied and will therefore apply
the entire patch list. Otherwise, it determines the previously applied patches and
applies only the new ones.
The patch tar file (name begins with Xspatch_) contains the code files for all of the
patches along with a map file which contains the instructions for applying the
particular patches.
The patch tar file is copied and expanded into a temporary
working directory which will be removed before the script ends. If an error causes
the script to exit prematurely, it's possible that the temporary directory
(name begins with "xspatchTmp") will not be removed. This is unimportant though,
you can leave it or remove it and it won't affect the installer next time it's run.
After the installer finishes, you can either keep or remove the the patch tar file.
If the installer finds more than one patch tar file in your directory , it will
use the one with the most recent version. The installer will also
create a patch.log file primarily for diagnostic purposes.
Command line options:
Beginning with installer v3.0, the following command line flags are available (and may also
be entered in abbreviated form):
-help | Show available options |
-models | Use only for patching stand-alone model library distribution of xspec. |
-no_build | Only copy the patch files, do not build (this will not update the patch history file). |
Troubleshooting:
If the script fails in its attempt to unzip and untar the patch tar file, you
made need to modify the tar command for your particular system. This is set at the
top of the patch_install.tcl script with the variables "untarCmd" and "untarFlgs."
Their default setting will produce "tar zxvf" as the unzip/untar command.
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