The first step in installing the DCS software is to create a new directory
to install it in. All software packages checked out of SSRL's CVS repository
should be checked out into this new directory. This documentation will refer
to this directory as the 'DCS root' directory and the examples will
use a 'DCS root' directory of ~/release-3_2/. Most of the build files
will build relative to this directory.
Depending on the purpose of a particular computer in the distributed system, it may not be necessary to install all of the DCS software components. For example, it is not necessary to check out the 'blu-ice' onto a computer that will only be used to run a DHS program.
NOTE: This documentation was tested against g++ version 2.96 on Linux Red Hat 7.3.