Building and Installing Mercury

Software Requirements

This is the list of software components needed to build or develop the Mercury Grid Monitoring System. "Min. version" means earlier versions are known not to work. "Recommended version" means the version used during the development of the Grid Monitoring System; other versions might or might not work.

The following software has to be installed to build the package:

pkg-config
- Min. version: 0.14.0
- Recommended version: 0.15.0
- Available at: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig
- License: GPL
GLib 2
- Min. version: 1.3.15
- Recommended version: 2.2.0
- Available at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk
- License: LGPL-2

You may need the following software instead of your platform's default if you experience problems during the build process:

GCC
- Min. version: 3.0 (2.96-110 on RedHat)
- Recommended version: 3.3
- Available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc
- License: GPL-2
GNU Make
- Recommended version: 3.79.1
- Available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/make
- License: GPL-2

The following software might need to be installed if you intend to modify the software or build a version from CVS:

GNU autoconf
- Min. version: 2.59
- Available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf
- License: GPL-2
GNU automake
- Min. version: 1.7
- Available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake
- License: GPL-2
GNU libtool
- Recommended version: 1.5
- Available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake
- License: GPL-2
flex
- Min. version: 2.5.30
- Available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/non-gnu/flex
- License: BSD-like
bison
- Min. version: 1.875
- Available at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison
- License: GPL-2

The following software is needed to build the documentation:

gtk-doc-tools
- Min. version: 1.0
- Recommended version: 1.1
- Available at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk-doc
- License: GPL
Jade
- Min. version: 1.1
- Recommended version: 1.2.1
- Available at: http://www.jclark.com/jade
- License: Free
libxslt
- Recommended version: 1.0.21
- Available at: http://xmlsoft.org
- License: Free
libxml2
- Recommended version: 2.5.0
- Available at: ftp://ftp.gnome.org
- License: LGPL
DocBook XML DTD
- Required version: 4.1.2
- Available at: http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook
- License: Free
DocBook Stylesheets
- Recommended version: 1.76
- Available at: http://nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl
- License: Free

Software needed to build the GTOP system monitor module:

libgtop2
- Recommended version: 2.0.1
- Available at: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgtop/2.0
- License: GPL

Software needed to build the database archiver client:

PostgreSQL
- Min. version: 7.2
- Available at: http://www.postgresql.org
- License: BSD

Software needed to build the simple loadavg grapher example:

Gtk+ 2
- Min. version: 1.3.15
- Recommended version: 2.2.3
- Available at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk
- License: LGPL-2