GEOS-5 Checkout and Build Instructions

The instructions on this page are a summary of the GEOS-5 tutorial Arlindo da Silva has been presenting. For the moment, we presume that the user has an account on sourcemotel and access to the NCCS machines (e.g., discover).

How to Check Out the Code

Find a place to store and build the code

The GEOS-5 (AGCM) source code checks out at about 40 MB of space. Once compiled, the complete package is about 500 MB. Your home space on discover may not be sufficient for checking out and building the code. You should consider either requesting either a larger quota in your home space (call the tag x6-9120 and ask, telling them you are doing GEOS-5 development work) or building in your (larger) nobackup space. But consider, nobackup is not backed up. So be careful...

Setup your environment to check out code

With the above step complete, let's get ourselves ready to check out the code. We'll be using the UNIX cvs command to check out the code. The basic syntax is: % cvs -d $CVSROOT checkout -r TAGNAME MODULENAME