--- manual/s_getstarted/text/getting_started.tex 2004/02/16 02:27:33 1.19 +++ manual/s_getstarted/text/getting_started.tex 2004/03/11 16:11:56 1.21 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -% $Header: /home/ubuntu/mnt/e9_copy/manual/s_getstarted/text/getting_started.tex,v 1.19 2004/02/16 02:27:33 edhill Exp $ +% $Header: /home/ubuntu/mnt/e9_copy/manual/s_getstarted/text/getting_started.tex,v 1.21 2004/03/11 16:11:56 edhill Exp $ % $Name: $ %\section{Getting started} @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ \begin{verbatim} % export CVSROOT=':pserver:cvsanon@mitgcm.org:/u/gcmpack' \end{verbatim} -in your .profile or .bashrc file. +in your \texttt{.profile} or \texttt{.bashrc} file. To get MITgcm through CVS, first register with the MITgcm CVS server @@ -824,6 +824,17 @@ provided by commercial Unix vendors, GNU \texttt{make} (sometimes called \texttt{gmake}) should be preferred. This option provides a means for specifying the make executable to be used. + +\item[\texttt{--bash=/path/to/sh}] On some (usually older UNIX) + machines, the ``bash'' shell is unavailable. To run on these + systems, \texttt{genmake2} can be invoked using an ``sh'' (that is, + a Bourne, POSIX, or compatible) shell. The syntax in these + circumstances is: + \begin{center} + \texttt{/bin/sh genmake2 -bash=/bin/sh [...options...]} + \end{center} + where \texttt{/bin/sh} can be replaced with the full path and name + of the desired shell. \end{description}