NWChem/INSTALL.binbuilds
Huub Van Dam 97f303e6f8 HvD: In the CVS era the $Id: $ tags in the source code files would
automatically be expanded to include useful information about the
checkin (including the file's revision number). With the switch over
to SVN this was lost because SVN only does this expansion if you 
explicitly ask for it (for every single file). 

I have added a script to the contrib directory that sets the appropriate
property to get SVN to do this expansion. This script will make it easy
to do this every time new source files are added. It is called
svn_expand_Id, the script contains some comments that explain the issue
and how it addresses this.  

This checkin sets this property for a subset of the relevant files
(trying to commit all files at once failed with svn crashing). 
In future the script will only affect those files for which the property
was not set before.
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Guide to Installing NWChem Binary Builds
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INSTALLING NWCHEM FOR GENERAL SITE USE:
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To extract the tar file you will need to issue one of the following
commands (or any equivalent variant).
1) tar xvf nwchem-*******.tar
2) cat nwchem-******.tar.Z | uncompress | tar xvf -
3) gunzip -c nwchem-******.tgz | tar xvf -
After the tar file has been expanded the following file and
directory structure will exist.
regular file - ./INSTALL.binbuilds
directory - ./bin
directory - ./classes
directory - ./usr.local.lib.nwchem
directory - ./etc
A) The file ./INSTALL.binbuilds is this file you are reading.
B) The ./bin directory contains the binaries used for the given build
on the target machine. There will be an nwchem executable and any
other associated files that are necessary for the target platform.
C) The ./classes directory has the Java class files for the NWChem
support tool. This is to be used by the designated point of
contact at each site. See the description below.
D) The ./usr.local.lib.nwchem directory has the basis set libraries
and the default amber and charmm parameter files used for
molecular dynamics simulations.
E) The ./etc directory has an executable c-shell script to generate a
default ".nwchemrc" file that enables nwchem to find the
usr.local.lib.nwchem files. Each user will need a .nwchemrc file
to point to these default data files (e.g., those in the directory
./usr.local.lib.nwchem). The file default.nwchemrc generated by the
script in ./etc can be used as the target of a symbolic link in
c-shell each users $HOME directory. Users would have to issue the
following command prior to using NWChem:
ln -s /usr/local/NWChem/etc/default.nwchemrc $HOME/.nwchemrc
Of course users can copy this file instead of making the symbolic
link described above and change these defaults at their discretion.