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Workstation Install: How to Install software for a specific platform


Record #1212

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  Merged Core

Problem Title:
Workstation Install:  How to Install software for a specific platform


Problem Description:
In the workstation world, some users have a non-uniform
platform environment.  For example, the server may be
an HPUX machine and all the others may be Sparcs.

This situation is a problem because the Xilinx Install
assumes that the workstation platform that mounts the CDROM
is the executable that should be installed.  So, in the above
example where the server is a HPUX machine, and all the other
clients are Sparcs, if 'install' is executed without any options
on the HPUX machine, HPUX binaries will be installed instead of
Sparc binaries


Solution 1:

When invoking the 'install' script, use the
 option.  The options for
are:


When you want to force the installtion of
binareis for a specific platform, use the '-f' option.

The options for the '-f' option are:



dos
hppa
rs6000
sparc

For example, to specifically install binaries for a sparc
on a sparc, you would use:

install -f sparc


As another example, to specifically install binaries for
a hppa on a sparc, install would be invoked as:

install -f hppa


Note, some of the above options do not apply.  For example,
the rs6000 option only works on the rs6000 CDROM version
of XACT 6.





End of Record #1212