Intended audience

This manual is aimed primarily at those people responsible for the installation of the CERN Program Library on systems at CERN or elsewhere. Some of the material is only relevent for the CERN Program Library section of the CN/ASD group at CERN.

Having read this manual you should be able to:

1. Install all or part of the CERN Program Library on one of the supported platforms.
2. Understand how to port the Program Library to a new platform.

Certain sections of this manual will also be of interest to software developers, such as Appendix , where the HIGZ flags are described and Appendix , where reserved routine and common block prefixes are listed.