# -- CVS $Id: INSTALL,v 1.4 1996/02/11 00:01:02 aku Exp $
#

Installation and compilation instructions
with regard to the Blob extension to TCL
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

o	This extension requires plain tcl, version 7.5a1 or
	higher.  If you don't have it installed, do this now.


o	That you are reading this text means, that you extracted
	the gzipped tar-archive in a directory of your choice.
	This operation should have created a subdirectory with
	the name 'blob<version>'.  It is refered to as
	"source-directory" from now on.


o	'cd' into the source-directory, e.g. make it your working
	directory, then start the automatic setup by typing
	'configure'.  If your system does not understand the
	'#!' notation of specifying script-interpreters, you
	have to type 'sh configure' (or '/bin/sh configure', ...).

	See 'INSTALL.configure' for more information about
	'configure' (it is the unchanged file 'INSTALL' as part
	of the 'autoconf' package).


o	The automatic setup is currently unable to locate tcl
	properly. It does make a guess about it however. This
	guess is based on the following assumption about the
	structure of your directory-tree:

			      xxxxx
				|
			+-------+-------+
			|		|
		blob<version>	     tcl7.5a1

	If your directory-tree does not look like that, you will
	have to edit the generated 'Makefile' to reflect real
	version and/or location of tcl.  The variable TCL_DIR
	has to be changed then.


o	Now start the compilation by typing 'make'.
	The makefile will then check number and names of the files
	in the package, generate dependency information, compile
	them and at last build the library.

	The tool 'get-manifest' used during file check requires
	the directory /tmp.


o	To check the extension, type 'make test' or 'make check'.
	This will build a tclsh containing just tcl and blob and
	then runs some test-scripts checking the behaviour of the
	created library.


o	At last type 'make install' to install the generated
	library and the exported header.


o	To install a tclsh containing just tcl and blob please type
	'make install-bin'.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Enjoy
	Andreas Kupries (aku@kisters.de)
