Installation steps

After you have installed, configured, and tested XL Fortran:

  1. Assuming that the XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V8.0 for Linux CD is mounted at the /cdrom location in the system, issue the following commands:
      # cd /cdrom
      # ./xlc_install 
  2. Complete the following steps:
    1. Confirm that you want to uninstall any previously installed XL SMP and MASS libraries. The installation utility will then install the XL SMP and MASS libraries provided with XL C/C++ V8.0.
    2. Accept the licensing agreement and licensing information.
    3. Optional: Create symbolic links for the compiler invocations of XL C/C++ V8.0 in the /usr/bin/ directory.
      Note:
      An alternative to this step is to add the path that contains the compiler invocations to the PATH environment variable. See Setting the PATH environment variable to include the path to the XL C/C++ V8.0 invocations.

    The following links are created in the /usr/bin/ directory:

    Note:
    Some command links are not created in /usr/bin/, either because it might delete user-defined GCC-related invocations or because they are not compiler invocation commands. These include:
    • c89, c89_r, c99, c99_r, cc, and cc_r
    • mergepdf, new_install, resetpdf, showpdf, vac_configure

If all packages are successfully installed: