TIPC utilities package for Linux README
Last updated: 05 Feb 2016
This directory contains a variety of utility programs for use with Linux TIPC,
including:
1) tipc-config
An application for run-time configuration and monitoring of TIPC.
Its recommended to use the new configuration tool named "tipc" in iproute2
package for tipc, which utilizes the new tipc netlink kernel API.
2) PTTS (Portable TIPC Test Suite)
A basic sanity test suite that can be used to verify that major aspects of TIPC
are operating correctly.
3) TIPC demos
A collection of demo programs. The benchmark and inventory simulation demos
can be helpful in stressing certain aspects of TIPC beyond the areas covered
by PTTS.
4) TIPC pipe
A netcat like program for tipc.
5) tipclog
A simple userspace network event logger running as daemon that logs link and
node availability status.
Building the utilities package
------------------------------
The master makefile for the utilities package allows you to build all programs
in a single operation. (If desired, you can also build a specific utility
individually from its own sub-directory.)
If you cloned out the git repo you will need to run
./bootstrap
first, if you have the dist tarball you need only run:
./configure
make
If the TIPC includes are not found for some reason,
or you want to build agains a different set of kernel headers.
You need to specify this directory in the configure stage as:
./configure CFLAGS=-I<path to directory containing linux/tipc.h>
Note: In the standard Linux kernel source tree, this directory is located
at <top of source tree>/include.
The build procedure produces executable programs in the various sub-directories
that make up the package.
TIPC utilities uses autoconf and automake, to customize your build please
see the autotools and automake manuals. A few common targets are
make install
make dist
Running the utilities package
-----------------------------
Consult the README file in each sub-directory for further details on using
the associated application.