[daip] Re: aips install question

[George Heald]

Hello again,

It appears all I had to do was create a link called libtermcap.so pointing 
to libtermcap.so.2.0.8, and it appears to work fine. Is this an acceptable 
approach?

Thanks again,

George

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Eric Greisen wrote:

> George Heald writes:
> 
>  > My name is George Heald; I'm at the U of New Mexico. I recently attempted 
>  > to install 31DEC02 on my RedHat 7.2 machine and have run into some 
>  > problems. First off, I have installed the correct compiler set as 
>  > suggested (gcc-2.95.3), and have looked fairly hard online for answers to 
>  > my question. The problem comes when using the Install Wizard:
>  > 
>  > ----
>  > In file included from xas.c:31:
>  > xas.h:52:22: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
>  > xas.h:53:23: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory
>  > xas.h:54:24: X11/keysym.h: No such file or directory
>  > In file included from xas.c:31:
>  > xas.h:81:33: X11/extensions/XShm.h: No such file or directory
>  > make: *** [xas.o] Error 1
>  > AipsWiz: Error: Failed to build the XAS program.
>  > AipsWiz: Error: This means no AIPS TV will be available.
>  > AipsWiz: ==> Press <ENTER> to acknowledge::
>  > ----
> 
>       This suggests that X11 was not installed on your computer.
> These .h files should be in the area /usr/include/X11.
> 
>  > 
>  > I found an old help article which indicated that 16-bit color depth might 
>  > be the problem. However my display is set for 24-bit color. It appears 
>  > that there are some missing header files but I don't know exactly where 
>  > they should be located. Can you offer some assistance?
> 
>       The 16/24 bit is a run time problem and you seem to be ready to
> run if we can only compile
> 
>  > 
>  > I've also had problems with compiling the libraries at the end of the 
>  > process ("wimpy" compiler errors), but I have found some help online which 
>  > I need to sift through.
> 
> Send me some of the messages and let me see what you are getting.  The
> on-line help will probably not help....
> 
> Eric Greisen
>