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Thorn Documentation

The Cactus make system provides a mechanism for generating a Thorn Guide containing separate chapters for each thorn and arrangement in your configuration. The documentation provided for an individual thorn, obviously depends on what the thorn authors added, but the Thorn Guide is a good place to first look for special instructions on how to run and interpret the output from a thorn. Details about parameters, grid variables and scheduling are automatically included from the thorns' CCL files into the Thorn Guide. To construct a Thorn Guide for the configuration 4#4config5#5 use

gmake 4#4config5#5-ThornGuide

or to make a Thorn Guide for all the thorns in the arrangements directory,

gmake 4#4config5#5.

See Section B9.4 for a guide to adding documentation to your own thorns.