[bananas] Linux woes

[Patrick P. Murphy]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 06:38:34 -0500, "Ralph Gaume" <rgaume at usno.navy.mil> said:

>   I too had trouble installing AIPS on Red Hat 7 and reported these problems
> in mid October. The problem was immediately obvious from running the DDT. I
> found that the old (well tested) egcs compilers were available on my RedHat
> 7 system, so I compiled most of AIPS using the egcs compilers. 

... and ...

> Fortunately, the egcs-2.91.66, (egcs-1.1.2 release) compilers are still
> available

I'd still like to see someone try gcc 2.95 and its companion g77 on AIPS.
My bet is that it'd work, with "issues".  In other words, we might have to
futz with the compiler options or fix a Z routine here or there, but
hopefully nothing beyond that.

I'll repeat what Eric essentially said: do not use gcc 2.96 and its
companion version of g77 to build AIPS!

				- Pat
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