VMS/IRAF Installation and Site Manager's Guide
VMS/IRAF Installation and Site Manager's Guide
If the system is to be installed on multiple cpu's, or on a particularly
small host like a MicroVAX, it may be necessary or desirable to strip the
system of all non-runtime files to save disk space. This is done by deleting
all the program sources and all the sources for the reference manuals and
other printed documentation, but not the online manual pages. A special
utility called rmfiles (in the SOFTOOLS package) is provided for this
purpose. It is not however necessary to run rmfiles directly to strip
the system. This may be done either from DCL or from within the CL.
$ set default [iraf]
$ mkpkg strip
$ set default [iraf.noao]
$ mkpkg strip
- This will preserve all runtime files, permitting use of the standard runtime
system as well as user software development. Stripping the system will
not, however, permit relinking standard IRAF executables, as would be
required for bug fixes or caching termcap and graphcap entries. The size of
the system is reduced by about half. We do not recommend stripping the
system libraries, as this would preclude all IRAF related software
development or bug fixes, including user written Fortran programs (IMFORT),
and we no longer provide a "stripall" option.