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On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 18:54 -0700, Tim Fenn wrote: > *** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** > *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** > > > 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: For the record, I have for a while been provided GNU autotooled versions of mmdb, SSM, ccp4c and (old) clipper from http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~emsley/software/ and extras therein > clipper is only one library: libclipper. I felt having a library for > every filetype supported probably wouldn't scale well. ;) There is a finite number. > 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 you get libccp4c from the above location, that is usable. (I have not yet applied the patches from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve). > 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 For my part, I'd be happy with that. > 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. ;) The one main reason why I have not pushed this is because of conflicting library names. We haven't yet worked out a system to avoid that. Paul.
