Bufferpool installation instructions

+ Dependencies

In order to build bufferpool you need:

- a full Posix compatible system (suggested any linux distribution)
- gnu toolchain (gcc >= 3.4 , make >= 3.80, libtool >= 1.5.20) [1]


+ Build instructions

The following steps will be enough to build and install bufferpool from release
sources.

- install the dependencies
- enter the unpacked directory
- type ./configure in order to prepare the makefiles, you may specify a non
  standard prefix and the other paths, please refer to ./configure --help for
  the full details
- type make to build the sources
- type make install to install the program, you should be root in order to
  install system wide.



+ Building from git

In order to use the live sources for our scm you need the following additional
softwares:

- git >= 1.5 [4]
- autotools (automake >= 1.9, autoconf >= 2.61) [5]

The sources reside at git://live.polito.it/var/git/bufferpool.git you can fetch
them by issuing

$ git clone git://live.polito.it/var/git/bufferpool.git

Please refer to the git website[5] and our site[0] for further documentation.

In order to generate the configure script you may use autoreconf.

$ autoreconf -i

The standard build instruction applies form this step.


+ Links

[0] http://live.polito.it                       -- LScube main website

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/            -- GNU Compiler collection
    http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/        -- GNU Libtool
    http://www.gnu.org/software/make/           -- GNU Make

[2] http://www.gtk.org                          -- Gimp Toolkit 

[3] http://ffmpeg.org                           -- FFmpeg

[4] http://git.or.cz                            -- Git Version Control System

[5] http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/       -- GNU automake
    http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/       -- GNU autoconf