Releasing TAU for Mac

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, configures and builds 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 way 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.