Acro User Manual Version Version 1.0

## Software Management

### Downloading

The Acro software can be downloaded as a compressed tarfile from http://software.sandia.gov/Acro/.

Alternatively, Acro can be checked out from the Acro CVS (Concurrent Version System) repository. The CVS respository for Acro can be accessed by executing

        cvs -d :ext:${userid}@software.sandia.gov:/space/CVS-Acro checkout acro

This requires the use of an account (userid) on software.sandia.gov. Accounts on this machine are generally restricted to Sandians and academic collaborators working with Sandians. The scripts cvs.a and ssh.cvs can be used to encapsulate the access to this repository in a convenient manner; these scripts can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.cs.sandia.gov/pub/papers/wehart/src/shells.

By default, the cvs.a script uses the unix command whoami to determine the user id for the cvs connection. In general, the id ${userid} on software.sandia.gov will be selected by Sandia administrators. If this does not match your id provided by whoami, then you can set the ACRO_USER environmental variable to be id on software.sandia.gov. For example, within a csh environment, you would do

       setenv ACRO_USER janedoe
       cvs.a checkout acro

to checkout Acro from the account janedoe@software.sandia.gov.

The Acro CVS repository is organized into different modules that include different subsets of the Acro packages:

acro | The Acro repository with all software packages and an integrated configuration facility that builds them
acro-coliny | The Acro repository with the Coliny software package and all packages that it depends on
acro-pico | The Acro repository with the PICO software package and all packages that it depends on

### Online Resources

The CVS repository for Acro is on software.sandia.gov. This machine supports a variety of tools to facilitate the development of software tools, including

1. Bugzilla (http://software.sandia.gov/bugzilla/) - online bug reporting

2. Mailman (http://software.sandia.gov/mailman/listinfo/) - mailing list management

3. Bonsai (http://software.sandia.gov/bonsai/cvsqueryform.cgi) - a query interface to CVS

The following mailing lists are supported for Acro:

1. acro-announce@software.sandia.gov - general announcements

2. acro-bugs@software.sandia.gov - bug reports

3. acro-checkins@software.sandia.gov - CVS checking reports

4. acro-developers@software.sandia.gov - a developers mailing list

5. acro-help@software.sandia.gov - a help list

6. acro-misc-checkins@software.sandia.gov - CVS checking reports for miscellaneous acro components

7. acro-users@software.sandia.gov - a general users' mailing list

The mailman server also includes some mailing lists for specific Acro components like APPSPACK, PICO and Coliny.