Binary Build Tools
 
 
 

The following software is used during the process of building the FDO binaries.

Tool Description Path Download from
autoconf produces shell scripts to configure software source code packages automatically; depends on GNU m4 (version 1.4 or greater) /usr/bin Part of RHEL3
automake generates makefile.in files from makefile.am input files /usr/bin Part of RHEL3
make controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files /usr/bin Part of RHEL3
bison a general purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description for an LALR context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar. /usr/bin Part of RHEL3
sed (streams editor) is a text filter tool. It takes text input, performs one or more operations on the text and outputs the modified text. /bin Part of RHEL3
perl scripting language. This is used to build the FDO third-party OpenSSL components and to run the ArcSDE unit tests. /usr/bin Part of RHEL3
NoteThe FDO build requires the use of bison version 1.875. This happens to be the installed version on the Red Hat Linux machine used during the writing of this document. You can obtain an rpm for version 1.875-5 from http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/1/i386/bison-1.875-5.i386.html.