Releasing TAU for Mac
Contents
Instructions on how to build the TAU's MAC OS X distribution.
Simple use
Log into giusto.nic.uoregon.edu
cd /Applications/TAU_new_upgrade ./build_dmg.sh ~/tau-2.22.2.tgz 2.22.2
This will create a new tau-2.22.2.dmg in this directory.
What this script actually does
This script will take a gzipped tarball, uncompress, configure and build TAU for the apple platform (PPC and Intel). It then takes this build of TAU and places it in /Applications/TAU/tau where all the Apple Apps. (ParaProf.app etc...) expect it to be. /Applications/TAU is then copied to a preallocated disk image which is compressed and written out to the file system as a *.dmg file.
!WARNING! This script uses /Applications/TAU as a staging area, files present in this directory could be lost.
!CAUTION! This script uses a preallocated disk partition of size 500MB. If in the future TAU's distribution exceeds this size a new partition will need to be created. This can be done with Apple's disk image utility. You will want to create a larger sparse disk image to replace this one:
disk_template/rw_template.sparseimage
How the installation works
The finished directory structure should look like this:
/ Applications / TAU /
inital_setup
inital_setup.sh
Jumpshot
ParaProf
PerfDMF_Configure
PerfExplorer
PerfExplorer_Configure
set_path.sh
tau /
tauIcon.icns
The only thing that changes between releases of TAU is the 'tau' directory everything remains unchanged. Jumpshop, ParaProf, PerfDMF_Configure, PerfExplorer, PerfExplorer_Configure are Mac native applications and are basicly wrappers for the shell scripts used under linux.
inital_setup.sh is run each time one of these applications is run, it checks for the presence of 'inital_setup' if found it asks the user if the MAC shell path should be modified, then removes the 'inital_setup' file (this it only ask the first time someone launches an application).
set_path.sh modifies the user's shell path to add the TAU binary directory to it.
