[svn-r198] Changes since 19980129

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./INSTALL
./INSTALL_MAINT
./README
	Updated installation instructions for hdf-5.0.0a.

./RELEASE
	Updated release notes.  Needs more work.

./bin/release
	The tarballs include the name of the root directory like
	hdf-5.0.0a so it doesn't have to be explicitly created when
	the files are extracted.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL_MAINT b/INSTALL_MAINT
index e889b00..2f42cf0 100644
--- a/INSTALL_MAINT
+++ b/INSTALL_MAINT
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Information for HDF5 maintainers:
 
         all              -- build locally.
         install          -- install libs, headers, progs.
-        uninstall        -- removed installed files.
+        uninstall        -- remove installed files.
         mostlyclean      -- remove temp files (eg, *.o but not *.a).
         clean            -- mostlyclean plus libs and progs.
         distclean        -- all non-distributed files.
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ Information for HDF5 maintainers:
         fi
 
   Site configuration files are for personal preferences and should
-  not be distributed.
-
+  not be distributed. Run bin/config.guess to see what we think your
+  CPU, VENDOR, and OS values are.
 
 * If you use GNU make along with gcc the Makefile will contain targets
   that automatically maintain a list of source interdependencies; you
@@ -57,16 +57,16 @@ Information for HDF5 maintainers:
   to force an update.
 
   To force an update of all dependency information remove the
-  `.depend' file from each directory and type `make depend'.  For
+  `.depend' file from each directory and type `make'.  For
   instance:
 
 	$ cd $HDF5_HOME
 	$ find . -name .depend -exec rm {} \;
-	$ make depend
+	$ make
 
 * Object files stay in the directory and are added to the library as a
   final step instead of placing the file in the library immediately
-  and removing it from the directory.  The reason is two-fold:
+  and removing it from the directory.  The reason is three-fold:
 
 	1.  Most versions of make don't allow `$(LIB)($(SRC:.c=.o))'
 	    which makes it necessary to have two lists of files, one
@@ -75,3 +75,20 @@ Information for HDF5 maintainers:
 
 	2.  Some versions of make/ar have problems with modification
 	    times of archive members.
+
+	3.  Adding object files immediately causes problems on SMP
+	    machines where make is doing more than one thing at a
+	    time.
+
+* When using GNU make on an SMP you can cause it to compile more than
+  one thing at a time.  At the top of the source tree invoke make as
+
+	$ make -j -l6
+
+  which causes make to fork as many children as possible as long as
+  the load average doesn't go above 6.  In subdirectories one can say
+
+	$ make -j2
+
+  which limits the number of children to two (this doesn't work at the
+  top level because the `-j2' is not passed to recursive makes.