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Compiling in thorns

Cactus will try to compile all thorns listed in configs/<config>/ThornList. The ThornList file is simply a list of the form <arrangement>/<thorn>. All text after a pound sign `#' or exclamation mark `!' on a line is treated as a comment and ignored. The first time that you compile a configuration, if you did not specify a ThornList already during configuration, you will be shown a list of all the thorns in your arrangement directory, and asked if you with to edit them. You can regenerate this list at anytime by typing

gmake <config>-thornlist

or you can edit it using

gmake <config>-editthorns

Instead of using the editor to specify the thorns you want to have compiled, you can edit the ThornList outside the make process. It is located in configs/<config>/ThornList, where <config> refers to the name of your configuration. The directory, ./configs, exists after the very first make phase for the first configuration.


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