::SAGA DOCUMENTATION FILE::

:ADAPTOR NAME:

  Globus GridFTP File Adaptor
  
:AUTHORS:

  Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Ole Weidner (oweidner@cct.lsu.edu)
 
:LICENSE:

  Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
  
:ADAPTOR LIBRARY NAME:
  
  | globus_gram_file_adaptor.so (dylib) |

:IMPLEMENTS PACKAGE:
 
  | - saga_package_file       |\\
  | - saga_package_namespace  |

:DESCRIPTION:

  The adaptor allows (remote) file and directory operations using the Globus
  GridFTP (http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/4.0/data/gridftp/) protocol. 

:URL SCHEMES:

  | - gridftp:// |\\
  | - gsiftp://  |

:REQUIRES:

  In order to build and use the adaptor, the Globus Toolkit including the 
  development headers/libraries must be installed.

:CONFIGURE OPTIONS:


  | --with-globus-location=<dir>  use globus at <dir> (default=auto)         |\\
  | --with-gpt-location=<dir>     use gpt at <dir> (default=auto)            |\\
  | --with-globus-flavor=<flavor> use globus flavor <flavor> (default=auto)  |\\
  |                                                                          |\\
  |  GLOBUS_LOCATIO               Globus installation directory              |\\
  |  GPT_LOCATION                 GPT installation directory                 |\\
  |  GLOBUS_FLAVOR                Globus installation flavor                 |\\

:INI OPTIONS:

  none

:KNOWN ISSUES:

  If the adaptor is compiled using the threaded globus libraries (e.g. cc32dbgpthr) you might run into
  trouble on Mac OS X x86_64. There's an open ticket in the globus bugtracker for this:
  https://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/globus/show_bug.cgi?id=6274