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After banging my head against the wall trying to get CCP4, SSM, MMDB
and clipper installed in a multilib environment, I gave up and spent a
few hours reconfiguring all the libraries to abide by GNU coding
standards.  So, if you'd like, feel free to download:

ccp4c / ccp4f, mmdb, ssm and clipper from:

http://www.stanford.edu/~fenn/linux/packages.html

which all include pkg-config support, spec file support (for building
rpms under fedora, my major incentive) and are all built using
automake/autoconf/libtool with library versioning.  I made a few
changes in the process:

clipper is only one library: libclipper.  I felt having a library for
every filetype supported probably wouldn't scale well.  ;)

clipper doesn't include cctbx support - thats a whole other beast I
haven't tackled yet.

I'd also like to try and get the packages accepted in the
fedora-extras repositories, which is only one additional step beyond
this point.  However, I'm afraid the CCP4 license may not allow for
it, if I'm reading it correctly.  It seems the library is LGPL-ish,
but only for academic users - is this true?  If so, Fedora won't let
their repository system near it.  Otherwise, I'd *gladly* continue
depositing rpms to fedora-extras with other programs that depend on
the above (coot, ccp4mg, etc.), so one day I could just run:

yum/smart install coot ccp4mg

on my stock fedora boxen, let yum/smart pull in all the dependencies
and be done with it.  And given the build system, it would be a cinch
to migrate everything to ubuntu, debian, RHEL, etc., and potentially
save a few minutes of your system administrator's time.  ;)

Alternatively, it might be useful for some of the above to be
incorporated in the "official" releases.

Regards,
Tim

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