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LAL installation
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whatis : LALSuite is a package including various gravitational wave data analysis routines

git repository : https://git.ligo.org/lscsoft/lalsuite

.. note:: 
   LAL is used by cwb to generate on the fly the inspiral mdc

Installation :

.. code-block:: bash

    1) get lalsuite from git repository

       git clone -b lalsuite-v6.79 --single-branch --depth 1 https://git.ligo.org/lscsoft/lalsuite.git
       cd  lalsuite
       git checkout -b lalsuite-v6.79

    2) compile lalsuite with lal_build.sh (see the script reported below)

       source lal_build.sh

       # a new directory lalsuite_shash is created
       # where shash is the git short hash code of lalsuite
       
    3) move lalsuite_shash to $HOME_LIBS

       mv lalsuite_shash $HOME_LIBS/LAL
    

where **lal_build.sh** is the following script:

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    .. literalinclude:: lal_build.sh
       :language: bash

.. note::
   set _USE_LAL and HOME_LAL environment variables in watenv script.