From: P. Kratzer
                                                           Date: 2008-01-04


             VLT COMMON SOFTWARE "VLT2008" - OVERVIEW
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The VLT2008 release is an external release and distributed to consortia.

The release notes for VLT2008 reflect only the move from FEB2007 to
VLT2008. The VLT2008 release includes only bug fixes, no new functionality
has been added.
To have a complete picture of the changes from previous releases,
please have a look at the following page:
    http://www.eso.org/projects/vlt/sw-dev/vltsw/index.html

Starting with the FEB2007 release Linux is the only platform supported.

The "Linux installation manual" (VLT-MAN-ESO-17200-2009 issue 6)
is also available on this page:
http://www.eso.org/projects/vlt/sw-dev/wwwdoc/add_doc.html


               O.S.         	TORNADO

   CCSLite  Linux SL 4.4	2.2.1  (68k&PPC) - VxWorks 5.5

   NOCCS    Linux SL 4.4 	  -	



Important remark on Linux:
After the tools and the VLTSW installation, new shared libraries get
installed in the GNU-, TCLTK-, VLTROOT.
On Linux, the run-time linker needs to know about those shared libs.
Therefore it is required to perform the following two steps as root:
1) add the lines
/diska/vlt/VLT2008/gnu/lib
/diska/vlt/VLT2008/tcltk/lib
/diska/vlt/VLT2008/CCSLite/lib
(change accordingly to your installation the paths to the "lib"
directories)
to the file /etc/ld.so.conf
2) run as root the command:
# ldconfig

Note that if you have a previous installation you should remove the
entries for the previous release.



Features

1. The compiler version is still gcc 3.3.4

2. tcltk: still on version 8.4.13 as updated with FEB2007 release

3. VxWorks Tornado 2 : VxWorks version, 5.5.
       On Linux only the VxWorks 5.5 cross compiler is supported,
       no Tornado tools are available on Linux.

4. MIDAS: 07SEPpl1.1

5. DFS (dfs-5.1) and CPL lib (4.0.1)


Distribution
------------

The release is distributed to external sites upon request.

The VLT2008 release is distributed on a DVD containing the complete
installation, including Scientific Linux 4.4 and the VLTSW.



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