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+ This is the Ruby binding for LIBSVM.
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+ Rudi Cilibrasi (cilibrar@cilibrar.com) wrote this Ruby binding.
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+ It makes it easy to use Support Vector Machines from Ruby.
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+ PRE-REQs for
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+ Debian Systems:
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+ sudo apt-get install libsvm2 libsvm-dev libsvm-tools
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+ See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field. If
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+ `config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't
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+ need to know the machine type.
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+ If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should
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+ use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
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+ produce code for.
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+ If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a
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+ platform different from the build platform, you should specify the
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+ "host" platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will
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+ eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'.
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+ Sharing Defaults
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+ ================
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+ If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share,
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+ you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives
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+ default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
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+ `configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
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+ `PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists. Or, you can set the
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+ `CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
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+ A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script.
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+ Defining Variables
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+ ==================
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+ Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the
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+ environment passed to `configure'. However, some packages may run
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+ configure again during the build, and the customized values of these
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+ variables may be lost. In order to avoid this problem, you should set
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+ them in the `configure' command line, using `VAR=value'. For example:
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+ ./configure CC=/usr/local2/bin/gcc
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+ will cause the specified gcc to be used as the C compiler (unless it is
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+ overridden in the site shell script).
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+ `configure' Invocation
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+ ======================
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+ `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it
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+ operates.
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+ `--help'
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+ `-h'
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+ Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit.
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+ `--version'
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+ `-V'
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+ Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
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+ script, and exit.
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+ `--cache-file=FILE'
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+ Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in FILE,
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+ traditionally `config.cache'. FILE defaults to `/dev/null' to
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+ disable caching.
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+ `--config-cache'
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+ `-C'
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+ Alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'.
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+ `--quiet'
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+ `--silent'
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+ `-q'
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+ Do not print messages saying which checks are being made. To
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+ suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
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+ messages will still be shown).
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+ `--srcdir=DIR'
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+ Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually
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+ `configure' can determine that directory automatically.
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+ `configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options. Run
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+ `configure --help' for more details.
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+