From: S. Feyrin
                                                           Date: 15/11/2006


             VLT COMMON SOFTWARE "FEB2007" - OVERVIEW
             ========================================

The FEB2007 release is an external release and it will be distributed
to consortia.

The release notes for FEB2007 reflect only the move from JAN2006 to 
FEB2007.
To have a complete picture of the changes from previous releases, have a 
look at the page: 
    http://www.eso.org/projects/vlt/sw-dev/vltsw/index.html

From this release FEB2007, Linux is the only platform supported.

A DVD containing Scientific Linux 4.3 and VLTSW will be provided. 

The "Linux installation manual" (VLT-MAN-ESO-17200-2009 issue 5) 
is also available at the page: 
http://www.eso.org/projects/vlt/sw-dev/wwwdoc/add_doc.html



               O.S.         	TORNADO           

   CCSLite  Linux SL 4.3	2.2.1  (68k&PPC) - VxWorks 5.5

   NOCCS    Linux SL 4.3 	  -	



Important remark on Linux: 
After the tools and the VLTSW installation, new shared libraries get 
installed in the GNU-, TCLTK-, VLTROOT. 
On Linux, the run-time linker needs to know about those shared libs. 
For this it is necessary to perform the following two steps as root:
1) add the lines
/diska/vlt/FEB2007/gnu/lib
/diska/vlt/FEB2007/tcltk/lib
/diska/vlt/FEB2007/CCSLite/lib
(change accordingly to your installation the paths to the "lib" 
directories)
to the file /etc/ld.so.conf
2) run as root the command:
# ldconfig

Note that if you have a previous installation you should remove the 
entries for the previous release.



Features 

1. The compiler version is still gcc 3.3.4

2. tcltk: upgraded to 8.4.13; see the Release Notes for tcltk

3. VxWorks Tornado 2 : VxWorks version, 5.5. 
       On Linux there is only support for VxWorks 5.5 cross 
       compiler, but no Tornado tools are available on Linux   

4. MIDAS: 06SEPpl1.3

5. DFS (dfs-5_0b1) and CPL lib (3.0) added


Distribution
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The release will be distributed to external sites upon request.




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