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DOCUMENTATION :: Install Guide
Prerequisites
Magma uses some external libraries, which are:
- libfuse for client (mounter) developement
- libopenssl for SHA1 digests
Other features are imported by libc which
is available as -dev package in every distribution.
NFS code is included in GNU libc, so there's no need to
download anything from Sun.
Compiling
Magma uses autotools, so compiling it it's just a matter of:
$ ./configure [options] $ make $ make install
configure script allows to customize build.
Excluding common options (like --prefix), let's
see Magma specific ones.
--enable-nfs-interface enables NFS interface
build. Magma will not build NFS interface unless explicitly
required.
--enable-pkt-dump is an old debugging switch
to inspect all trafic between server and client. Uses a lot
of disk space and slow down operations. Not for the final user.
--enable-debug-stderr uses stderr
instead of syslog to report server activity.
Note that client mounter and magma server will not fork in the
background if log is compiled on stderr and debug mask is not
null.
--enable-debug-free double check each
free() call. In source code, some objects are
marked by unfreeable() macro which stores object
address in a linked list. A macro reimplementation of
free() is than used to first check if object is
not in this list and then unallocate it. This is a simple
memory debugger which works correctly just for objects which
never change position (are never realloc()ated).
--disable-garbage-collector will disable the
internal garbage collector. This is only a debug feature and
should not be used by the final user. If garbage collector is
disabled, flare will be removed instantly and finished threads
will stay allocated forever.
--enable-profiler enables use of gprof.
This option includes --enable-debugger.
--enable-debugger enables use of gdb
by inserting debug symbols.
