Building and Installing PIPS from SVN

Step 1: Install required dependencies

Step 2: Download the setup script and make it executable

 The script can be downloaded here: setup_pips.sh.

$ wget http://svn.cri.ensmp.fr/svn/nlpmake/trunk/makes/setup_pips.sh
$ chmod +x setup_pips.sh

Step 3: Run the setup script

You can execute the setup_pips.sh shell script to install a possibly working pips version and your development branches if you have any.

Note: what does this script do ? It will:

1. Checkout the source code for PIPS, Newgen and Linear from the SVN repository (in MYPIPS/prod).
2. Checkout the validation test cases from SVN (in MYPIPS/validation)
3. Checkout a working copy for the private user's branch, if any (in MYPIPS/pips_dev).
4. Download and install the Polylib library

Additionally, the script will complain in case any dependencies listed in Step 1. are missing.

 $ ./setup_pips.sh [destination [user]]

where:

• destination is the destination directory (default: ~/MYPIPS)
• user is...

Step 4: Load the PIPS environment variables

$ source ~/MYPIPS/pipsrc.sh

Notes:

• You may want to make this change permanent by inserting the above line in your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc file.
• If you prefer to work in your private branch (for PIPS developers only), make the environment variable PIPS_ROOT point to MYPIPS/pips_dev rather than MYPIPS/prod/pips.

Step 5: Validate the build

$ unset LANG
$ cd ~/MYPIPS/validation
$ make validate

 At this point, you should have a working copy of PIPS.

Annex: Rebuilding Pips

The following commands will rebuild your entire PIPS environment (including dependencies surch as Newgen, Linear, etc.):

$ cd MYPIPS/prod
$ make unbuild
$ make -j1 build

Notes:

• The -j1 flag may be necessary to prevent make from performing concurrent builds on our dual-core CPU, depending on the default behaviour of the make utility for a given platform.

Known Bugs

•  cproto 4.6 and PIPS are known to be incompatible. If you need to install cproto from source, be sure to download it from here, *not* the Sourceforge page (which offers only version 4.6) :

http://invisible-island.net/cproto/cproto.html

Current version (at the time of writing) is cproto 4.7h.