Installation Instructions

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   This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives

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Basic Installation

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   Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should

configure, build, and install this package.  The following

more-detailed instructions are generic; see the `README' file for

instructions specific to this package.

   The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for

various system-dependent variables used during compilation.  It uses

those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package.

It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent

definitions.  Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that

you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, and a

file `config.log' containing compiler output (useful mainly for

debugging `configure').

   It can also use an optional file (typically called `config.cache'

and enabled with `--cache-file=config.cache' or simply `-C') that saves

the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring.  Caching is

option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.

Optional Features

=================

   Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to

`configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.

They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE

is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System).  The

`README' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that the

package recognizes.

   For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually

find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't,

you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and

`--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations.

Particular systems

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   On HP-UX, the default C compiler is not ANSI C compatible.  If GNU

CC is not installed, it is recommended to use the following options in

order to use an ANSI C compiler:

and if that doesn't work, install pre-built binaries of GCC for HP-UX.

   On OSF/1 a.k.a. Tru64, some versions of the default C compiler cannot

parse its `<wchar.h>' header file.  The option `-nodtk' can be used as

a workaround.  If GNU CC is not installed, it is therefore recommended

to try

     ./configure CC="cc"

and if that doesn't work, try

     ./configure CC="cc -nodtk"

Specifying the System Type

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   There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out

automatically, but needs to determine by the type of machine the package

will run on.  Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the

_same_ architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints

a message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the

`--build=TYPE' option.  TYPE can either be a short name for the system

type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form:

     CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM

where SYSTEM can have one of these forms:

   See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field.  If

`config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't

need to know the machine type.

   If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should

use the option `--target=TYPE' to select the type of system they will

produce code for.

   If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a

platform different from the build platform, you should specify the

"host" platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will

eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'.

Sharing Defaults

================

   If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share,

you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives

default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.

`configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then

`PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists.  Or, you can set the

`CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.

A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script.

/** Fill variables after crash / shutdown from XML dumps */

int start_data(){

  struct stat buffer;

  if(stat(SYSCONFDIR "/data.xml", &buffer) == 0){

    // @TODO: retrieve total_finished_jobs and total_finished_frames from xml file

    fprintf(stderr,"Parsing XML files and restoring previous state...\n");

    return 1;

  }

  else{

    general_info.total_finished_jobs = 0;

    general_info.total_frames_rendered = 0;

    fprintf(stderr,"Can't find XML dump, starting up fresh.\n");

    return 2;

  }

  free(&buffer); // @TODO: Is this pointless?

}

/** Finish-Setter: Sets a frame to the "completed" status.*/

void finish_frame(struct distrenjob *distrenjob, int frame){

  distrenjob->frameset[frame].status = 2;

  distrenjob->frameset[frame].time_to_render = (clock() - distrenjob[jobnum].frameset[frame].start_time); // Consider changing time-to-render to time-for-frame or something?

  general_info.total_frames_rendered++; // Increase total frames var for stats

}

/**

   creates a structure from starting data, then calls another function to actually add that struct to the queue

*/

void prepare_distrenjob(struct frameset *head, int type, char *name, char *submitter, char *email, int priority, int start_frame, int end_frame)

{

  int counter2;

  int counter;

  struct distrenjob *distrenjob;

  distrenjob->type = 1;

  distrenjob->name = name;

  distrenjob->submitter = submitter;

  distrenjob->email = email;

  distrenjob->priority = priority;

  distrenjob->frameset = malloc(end_frame - start_frame + 1);

  distrenjob->total_frames = (end_frame - start_frame + 1); // sets the total number of frames in animation for status purposes

  /* @TODO: what does this do? frameset array is declared above */

  /*

  for(distrenjob_ptr = *distrenjobs_head; distrenjob_ptr; distrenjob_ptr = distrenjob_ptr->next)

    {

      if(distrenjob_ptr->frameset[0].status == 0 && distrenjob_ptr->frameset[1].status == 0)

	/* If the job has been started, scan it */

	{

	  unsigned int framecounter;  /*< to scan through frames */

	  unsigned long finished_frames; /*< variable that counts the completed frames */

	  unsigned int pending_frames; /*< variable that counts the assigned frames */

	  float percent_frames_finished;  /*< variable that stores the percent done of the distrenjob */

	  unsigned int total_time;  /*< total time taken to render all the completed frames for a job */

	  framecounter = 0;

	  finished_frames = 0;

	  pending_frames = 0;

	  percent_frames_finished = 0;

	  total_time = 0;

	  while(framecounter < distrenjob_ptr->total_frames)

	    /* scans through frames, based on their status it runs a statement(s) */

	    {

	      if(distrenjob_ptr->frameset[framecounter].status == 2)

		/* If the frame is done */

		{

		  finished_frames ++;

		}

	      if(distrenjob_ptr->frameset[framecounter].status == 1)

		/* If the frame is assigned */

		{

		  pending_frames ++;

		  workers_working ++;

		}

	      framecounter ++;

	    } /* while(framecounter < distrenjob_ptr->total_frames) */

	  // find the percent of completed frames

	  percent_frames_finished = (finished_frames / distrenjob_ptr->total_frames) * 100; /*< @LordofWar: extraneous parentheses! */

	  /* updates values in the distrenjob struct */

	  distrenjob_ptr->completed_frames = finished_frames;

	  distrenjob_ptr->assigned_frames = pending_frames;

	  distrenjob_ptr->percent_done = percent_frames_finished;

	  distrenjob_ptr->time_remaining = (distrenjob_ptr->avg_render_time * (distrenjob_ptr->total_frames - finished_frames)); /*< extraneous parentheses! */

	  if(finished_frames == distrenjob_ptr->total_frames)

	    /* If all frames are complete */

	    {

	      distrenjob_remove(distrenjobs_head, distrenjob_ptr); /*< remove this job from the linkedlist */

	      distrenjob_free(distrenjob_ptr);

	      general_info.total_finished_jobs++; /*< add one to the total finished jobs */

	    }

	  else if (finished_frames > distrenjob_ptr->total_frames)

	    /* just in case ;-) */

	    {

	      fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d: finished_frames (%lu) > distrenjob_ptr->total_frames (%d)",

		      __FILE__, __LINE__,

		      finished_frames,

		      distrenjob_ptr->total_frames);

	      abort();

	    }

	}

      general_info.rendering_clients = workers_working; /*< should this be a +=? */

      numjobs ++;