[daip] aips problem

[Patrick P. Murphy]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:53:35 -0400, Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu> said:

> Ryan Miller writes:
>> Hi.  I'm trying to install aips 31DEC99 on a professors machine.  It is a
>> soalris 2.7 machine that already has 15OCT99 on it.  Unfortunately we use
>> gcc/g77, not cc/f77 ...

<snip>

> Pat has already told you how to achieve what you have requested.  I want
> to point out that we tried the egcs compiler (now called g77) on Solaris
> with disappointing results.  The code worked, but it ran 30-50% slower
> than when compiled with Sun's compilers.  g77 is very good in optimizing
> for Intel chips, but manufacturers like Sun and Compaq (DEC) do better
> with their own chips.  Of course, their compilers are not free.

Correction: I believe the Compaq (DEC) compilers for Linux running on
Alpha systems are indeed available at no charge.  Or they were a while
ago... 
				- Pat