Diane Delgado's changes for a fixed table-locking order

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README file for creating Moira*

This is the root directory of MIT Athena's Moira service management
system source code.

The Makefiles are set up so that the source tree can be
separate from the tree(s) containing binaries.  We have
found this useful since we have to have separate sets of binaries,
for different platforms.

The default value of the root of the Moira source tree
(this directory) is /mit/moiradev/src.  You can set it
to something else by specifying, for example, "make SRCDIR=/x/y/z"
if you want the source in /x/y/z.

Here are the steps for building the Moira source.

1.  Create a directory to hold the tree of object files,
    say it's /foo/bar/baz.

2.  Cd to that directory and run the command:

	make -f /x/y/z/util/makeconfig SRCDIR=/x/y/z

    where /x/y/z is the root of the source tree (not necessary
    if the root is /mit/moiradev/src).  This creates the necessary
    directories and copies Makefiles into them.

3.  Cd to util/imake.includes.  Read through config.Imakefile, turning
    on appropriate flags for your installation, and setting the paths
    to your include files, libs, etc for Kerberos Hesiod and Zephyr.*
    Note that we are not licensed to distribute gdss, so it is not
    included in this distribution.  Therefore you will probably not
    want to define it.  Change SRCTOP appropriately.

4.  Cd to include.  Read through moira_site.h adjusting the paths to
    what you want on your system.  Also change the #define of
    MOIRA_SERVER to be the name of the server you are planning on
    using.

5.  Still in the top of the object directory (/foo/bar/baz
    of Step 1), type "make world" (or "make world  SRCDIR=/x/y/z).

    Note: the mmoira client uses X11r4 and motif 1.1.

    Notes on building the server: When building the server (if you are
    using Ingres) make sure to define the environment variable
    II_SYSTEM appropriately, and add the ingres/bin directory to your
    path.  Building the server also requires having perl in your path.
    It is only used in one place, in order to get around an ingres
    bug that sets certain field sizes incorrectly when doing an ascii
    dump of the database, causing data to be lost.  The perl script is
    src/backup/esql_fix.pl.

6.  Run "make install".  You may want to check that programs
    are installed where you want.  Then add the appropriate
    directories to your PATH environment variable.

* Moira and Hesiod are registered trademarks of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT).  Kerberos, and Zephyr are trademarks of
MIT.  No commercial use of these trademarks may be made without prior
written permission from MIT.