
Copyright (c) 1996 Edward Walker. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
 

	PERL-PVM
        --------

This is a perl extension for the parallel virtual machine 
(PVM) message-passing system.   Before you begin installation
you must have already installed PVM (the most recent version of 
PVM may be found at http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm).  

You must also set the environment variables 
	
	setenv PVM_ROOT <pvm root directory>
	setenv PVM_ARCH `$PVM_ROOT/lib/pvmgetarch`

Remember to give yourself write permission to the PVM_ROOT
directory in order to install PERL-PVM.  

For a correct installation you will also need perl5.002 
or greater.

Once all the preliminaries have been done, the installation 
sequence is as follows:

	tar xvf Pvm-1.0.tar 
	cd Pvm-1.0

Have a look into Makefile.PL to see if you have to make any 
changes.  Afterwhich do 

	perl5 Makefile.PL
	make 
	make test
	make install

Please read the man page, ie.

	perldoc Parallel::Pvm

Any questions, critisims or suggestions are welcome.  

- eddie

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Dr Edward Walker
National Supercomputing Research Centre
81, Science Park Drive
Singapore 0511

Email: edward@nsrc.nus.sg
WWW: http://www.nsrc.nus.sg/STAFF/edward
