Building/Install from source
----------------------------

The instructions below (modified from the INSTALL file) should
work for most people.

  1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
     `./configure' to configure the package for your system.

     Running `configure' takes awhile.  While running, it prints some
     messages telling which features it is checking for.  If your system
     requires additional packages and/or libraries in order for FreeIPMI
     to be built, appropriate messages should be displayed.  These 
     packages and/or libraries should be installed and `./configure' should
     be executed again.

  2. Once `./configure' has succeeded, type `make' to compile the
     package.

  3. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
     documentation.
     
     You may need to be root in order for files to be installed into
     the proper locations on your system.

By default files will typically be installed in /usr/local (binaries
in /usr/local/bin, libraries in /usr/local/lib, configuration files in
/usr/local/etc/, etc.).  To install into the more common locations
such as /usr/bin, /usr/lib/, /etc, etc. the options passed into
`./configure' must be adjusted.

The following set of options and settings are suitable for most Linux
systems.

--prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man

Your mileage may vary depending on your system.

Building RPMs
-------------

For most people you can build RPMs one of two ways.

From the source:

rpmbuild -ta freeipmi-X.Y.Z.tar.gz

From the source rpm:

rpmbuild --rebuild freeipmi-X.Y.Z-1.src.rpm

Depending on your default RPM build environment, you may need to be root
in order for RPMs to be stored in the default locations.

After the RPMs are built, you may install them the normal way:

rpm -i freeipmi-X.Y.Z.ARCH.rpm