[daip] Mac OS X AIPS install crash

[Wes Young]

Hi Schuyler,

I've got a G4 at home and the IBM compilers work fine on it.  As for 
MacOSX, the NRAO is just starting to look at the OS seriously, we're 
still feeling around what the best options are.  I have found fink 
problematical and have taken to installing things from source on my 
home machine, others have had no problems with fink.

Installing the gnu compilers is relatively easy, essentially there are 
few things to keep in mind:

Unpack the the gcc tar ball and create an installation directory
i.e.

tar xzf gcc-3.3-2.tar.gz
mkdir darwin
cd darwin
../gcc-3.3.2/configure --prefix=/usr/local/gnu
gnumake bootstrap
gnumake install

Note you'll need permission to create /usr/local/gnu to install in it.  
You can always install it some place else where you have write 
permissions.

You'll then need to adjust the compilers accordingly.  I would suggest 
using the IBM compilers, they provide quite a performance boost over 
the gnu compilers.  We may have actually put the options in the build 
scripts for the IBM compiler, if not you'll need to adjust the compiler 
and just build with the -O3 option. I think you can rerun the install 
wizard and it will proceed apace.  In either case you'll want to 
rebuild everything, to avoid the restFP saveFP unresovled symbols 
problem.

Hopefully this will get you on track.

wes



On Nov 28, 2003, at 3:13 PM, Schuyler D. Van Dyk wrote:

> Hi Wes:
>
> The IBM beta compilers on the IBM site seem now to be only for G5's 
> (the
> new laptops are still G4's, but running OS 10.3).  I'm not a sys 
> admin, so
> I'm not sure what I'd be doing in building g77 from source.  I had 
> obtained
> what I thought was the most recent version of g77 from the Fink site, 
> following the
> instructions for the install on the AIPS Mac OS page.  My wife, Jean
> Turner, who has G4's running Mac OS 10.2, was able to compile 
> successfully
> 31DEC03 recently.  It's a little perplexing that with a slightly more
> advanced OS I'm not able to get it all to compile properly with 
> basically
> the same software (both from NRAO and from Fink).  Any further 
> assistance
> is greatly appreciated, including instructions on how to restart the
> Wizard, once the compiler issue has been straightened out.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Schuyler
>
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Wes Young wrote:
>
>> 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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