[daip] Mac OS X AIPS install crash

[Wes Young]

If you're going to use g77, I suggest building it from source. That 
should avoid the problems with restFP and saveFP. Better yet would be 
to use the IBM beta compilers.

wes

On Nov 28, 2003, at 1:52 PM, Schuyler D. Van Dyk wrote:

> Dear AIPS:
>
> I am installing 31DEC03 on a new Mac G4 laptop running Panther and got 
> as
> far as running INSTEP4, before the install crashed.
>
> I had downloaded and installed the various packages (g77, etc.) from 
> the
> latest version of FINK.  But, I had not yet unpacked the X11 SDK, 
> since I
> was assuming that it was already installed, along with X11 (which comes
> with Panther).
>
> When running the Install Wizard, I had gotten complaints about the XAS
> install, which I assume is related to the fact that the SDK had not yet
> been unpacked and installed (I have since unpacked it).
>
> During the INSTEP script, there are complaints of "wimpy compiler" at
> various stages, e.g.,
>
> LINK      :            -o
> /Users/vandyk/AIPS/31DEC03/MACPPC/PREP/POPSGN.EXE
> /usr/bin/ld: warning prebinding disabled because dependent library:
> /sw/lib/libncurses.5.dylib is not prebound
> /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
> restFP
> saveFP
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> LINK      : Status from /sw/bin/g77 is 1
> LINK      : Link of    /Users/vandyk/AIPS/31DEC03/MACPPC/PREP/POPSGN.o
> LINK      : dies from wimpy compiler
> LINK      : Dies of unnatural causes.
> COMLNK    : Link failed!
> COMLNK    : Deleted    /Users/vandyk/AIPS/31DEC03/MACPPC/PREP/POPSGN.o
> COMLNK    : Deleted    /Users/vandyk/AIPS/31DEC03/MACPPC/PREP/POPSGN.f
> COMLNK    : Date       Fri Nov 28 12:09:12 PST 2003
>
> etc., then finally it bombs at
>
> LINK      :            -lncurses \
> LINK      :              \
> LINK      :            -o
> /Users/vandyk/AIPS/31DEC03/MACPPC/PREP/SETTVP.EXE
> /usr/bin/ld: warning prebinding disabled because dependent library:
> /sw/lib/libncurses.5.dylib is not prebound
> LINK      : Moved      
> /Users/vandyk/AIPS/31DEC03/MACPPC/PREP/SETTVP.EXE
> LINK      : to         
> /Users/vandyk/AIPS/31DEC03/MACPPC/LOAD/SETTVP.EXE
> LINK      : Delete     /Users/vandyk/AIPS/31DEC03/MACPPC/PREP/SETTVP.o
> LINK      : Link of    /Users/vandyk/AIPS/31DEC03/MACPPC/PREP/SETTVP.o
> LINK      : ends successfully.
> COMLNK    : Deleted    /Users/vandyk/AIPS/31DEC03/MACPPC/PREP/SETTVP.f
> COMLNK    : Changed    /Users/vandyk/AIPS/31DEC03/AIPS/PGM/SETTVP.FOR
> COMLNK    : in
> /Users/vandyk/AIPS/31DEC03/MACPPC/INSTALL/AIPPGM.LIS
> COMLNK    : to         -/Users/vandyk/AIPS/31DEC03/AIPS/PGM/SETTVP.FOR
> COMLNK    : Dies of unnatural causes
> INSTEP4    : Failure in $AIPPGM/...
> INSTEP4    : compiling/linking.
> INSTEP4    : Dies of unnatural causes at Fri Nov 28 12:09:27 PST 2003
> AipsWiz: Error: INSTEP4 failed, no point in proceeding.
>
> The routines , then, that did not get linked properly are:
> AIPS.FOR, AIPSB.FOR, AIPSC.FOR, BATER.FOR, DAIP.FOR, GRIPR.FOR, and
> POPSGN.FOR .
>
> Any help, including how to restart the script, on what may have 
> happened
> here is greatly appreciated!  Please let me know if there are any 
> further
> details that you require.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Schuyler Van Dyk
> vandyk at ipac.caltech.edu
>
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