[daip] Re: aips installation problem follow-up question on xas

[Eric Greisen]

Min S. Yun writes:
 > Hi Eric,
 > 
 > Thanks for the quick response.  I re-created the error and here it 
 > goes.  Basically xas.c is not compiling, and it appears to be looking
 > for some X11 utility files.  I am not sure where I should look for
 > these -- can you point me to it?  Also, I noticed that one of the 
 > lines in my .AIPSRC file reads
 > "READLINE = /usr/aips/31DEC99/LINUX/LIBR/GNU/libreadline.a", and
 > I wonder if this should be pointing to a file in 31DEC03 directory.
 > 
 > At any rate, I show below the error messages I get from the xas
 > compiling error.
 > 
 > 
 > 					-- Min
 > 
 > rm -f *.o xas XAS
 > /usr/bin/gcc  -D_BSD -DUSE_SHM -O2 -c xas.c
 > In file included from xas.c:31:
 > xas.h:52: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
 > xas.h:53: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory
 > xas.h:54: X11/keysym.h: No such file or directory
 > In file included from xas.c:31:
 > xas.h:81: 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.

The code assumes that there is a directory in /usr/include called X11.
Normally that is a soft link to somewhere, e.g. ny Linux box has
root     root           20 Feb  3  2002 X11 -> ../X11R6/include/X11/

It looks as if you have solved the $ARCH problem.

Eric