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diff --git a/src/c/jerasure/README b/src/c/jerasure/README deleted file mode 100644 index 699a60a..0000000 --- a/src/c/jerasure/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,95 +0,0 @@ -This is revision 2.0 of Jerasure. This is pretty much Jerasure 1.2 without the -original Galois Field backend. Version 2.0 links directly to GF-Complete, which -is more flexible than the original, and *much* faster, because it leverages SIMD -instructions. -Authors: James S. Plank (University of Tennessee) - Kevin M. Greenan (Box) - ------------------------------------------------------------- - -The online home for jerasure is: - - - http://jerasure.org/jerasure/jerasure - ------------------------------------------------------------- - -External Documentation: - -See the file Manual.pdf for the programmer's manual and tutorial. - -See http://jerasure.org/jerasure/gf-complete for GF-Complete. - -NOTE: You must have GF-Complete installed (or compiled) in order to use Jerasure 2.0. - -There are two directories of source code: - -The src directory contains the jerasure code. -The Examples directory contains the example programs. - ------------------------------------------------------------- - -If you do not have Autoconf 2.65 or later installed, you can simply build -from the tarball distribution: - -http://www.kaymgee.com/Kevin_Greenan/Software_files/jerasure.tar.gz - -Installing if you are allowed to install GF-Complete on your machine: -(You can skip the autoreconf step if you're using a tarball distribution.) - -1.) Install GF-Complete -2.) autoreconf --force --install (*skip* if you are building from tarball) -3.) ./configure -4.) make -5.) sudo make install - -This will install the library into your machine's lib directory, -the headers into include, and the example programs into bin. - -The configuration process assumes shared objects are searched for in -/usr/local/lib. If this is not the case on your system, you can specify a -search path at configuration time. For example: - ./configure LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib - ------------------------------------------------------------- - -Installing if you can compile GF-Complete, but you cannot install it: - -1.) Install GF-Complete. Let's suppose the full path to GF-Complete is - in the environment variable GFP -2A.) On Linux, set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that it - includes $GFP/src/.libs -2B.) On a mac, set the environment variable DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH so that it - includes $GFP/src/.libs -2.) ./configure LDFLAGS=-L$GFP/src/.libs/ CPPFLAGS=-I$GFP/include -3.) make - -The examples will be in the directory Examples. The include files will -be in the directory include, and the library will be called libJerasure.a -in the directory src/.libs. - ------------------------------------------------------------- - -As long as GF-Complete is installed, Jerasure 2.0 can be used just as previous -versions. There is no need to define custom Galois Fields. Jerasure will -determine the default field to use, if one is not specified. - -If you would like to explore a using a different Galois Field implementation, -please see the manual. - ------------------------------------------------------------- - -Testing GF-Complete - -If the GF-Complete tools are installed in /usr/local/bin - - make check - -If the GF-Complete tools are installed elsewhere - - make GF_COMPLETE_DIR=$(pwd)/../gf-complete/tools check - -To run some tests with valgrind - - make VALGRIND='valgrind --tool=memcheck --quiet' \ - GF_COMPLETE_DIR=$(pwd)/../gf-complete/tools \ - check |