Appendix A Installing FWEB

Here is the bare-bones installation procedure for UNIX users:

1. Download the zgip-compressed tar file from ftp.pppl.gov:/pub/fweb. The name of the file contains the version number—e.g., fweb-1.61.tar.gz.

   ftp ftp.pppl.gov
   bin
   get fweb-1.61.tar.gz
   quit
   

2. Uncompress and unpack the tar file:

   gunzip fweb-1.61.tar.gz
   tar -xf fweb-1.61.tar
   

   If the GNU tar is installed, these two steps can be combined into

   gtar -xzf fweb-1.61.tar.gz
   

   Unpacking creates the directory fweb-1.61, with at least the two subdirectories Web and Manual.

3. Change to the new Web subdirectory and run the configuration script.

   cd fweb-1.61/Web
   ./configure
   

   ./configure is an sh script. It attempts to figure out various local system features automatically, then generates the three files defaults.mk, config.h, and custom.h; those are used in the make. For further information about the operation of ./configure, see fweb-1.61/READ_ME.FWEB.

4. Make and install the release:

   make [CFLAGS='special compiler flags']
   make install
   

   If gcc is available, it will be used in the make; in that case, the default CFLAGS should be sufficient. If another compiler is used, ensure that it is run in ANSI-compatible mode, not the old-style Kernighan and Ritchie.

   FWEB compiles on my system without any warnings with ‘gcc -ansi -pedantic’. Please report any compiler warnings from an allegedly ANSI-C environment.