Installing and Sharing Between Multiple Architectures

The directory structure of SmartSockets puts architecture-dependent files, such as executables and object libraries, in their own RTARCH directories. To install and share SmartSockets for several architectures, Network File System (NFS) can be used to share file systems between several UNIX computers. Install SmartSockets on the first architecture, then run the rtinstall installation script on all subsequent architectures to unload the architecture-dependent subsets. A SmartSockets product CDROM is needed for each architecture. Subsets 1 (text files) and 3 (examples and source) from the SmartSockets CDROM can be shared between all architectures.

The shared architectures should be the same revision of SmartSockets. The revision is printed on the face of the CDROM and is also listed when a standard SmartSockets process is executed. If the shared architectures are not the same revision of SmartSockets, the shared files might not be compatible. Contact TIBCO Product Support if you have questions about a specific combination of revisions. UNIX and OpenVMS architectures cannot be shared in the same directory.

For example, if you have two SmartSockets CDROM disks, one for the SPARC architecture and one for the HP 9000/7xx architecture, and you want to install both of them in the directory /usr/local/ss68, and /usr/local was shared using NFS on the SPARC and HP 9000/7xx computers, follow these steps: