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

[Min S. Yun]

Gentlemen,

You two are geniuses!  My aips is up and running, and I am a happy
camper again!  This proves again why we have such passionate 
aips followers among the NRAO users...  Have a great one!


					-- Min

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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Patrick P Murphy wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:26:35 -0400 (EDT), "Min S. Yun"
>    <myun at bonito.astro.umass.edu> said: 
> 
> > 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
> 
> They are (on Red Hat at least) part of the "XFree86-devel" package.
> This package includes the header (*.h) files needed to allow compilation
> and linking of programs that use X11, like the xas AIPS tv.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> If you have the "readline-devel" package installed, it should actually
> point to /usr/lib/libreadline.a (ideally).  However, I don't think the
> readline library as distributed by AIPS has changed since 1999 (Eric
> will correct me if I'm wrong here) and it basically works.
> 
> > 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
> > xas.h:81: X11/extensions/XShm.h: No such file or directory
> 
> Yep, these are all normally put in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/*.h by the package
> I mentioned (I checked on a stock RH7.2 system).
> 
> 				- Pat
>