[daip] Problem installing AIPS (31DEC04)

[Eric Greisen]

Ross Macduff writes:
 > Hi there,
 > 
 > I have encountered a problem installing AIPS on a Sun Ultra 1 workstation.  It 
 > is currently running SunOS 5.9.
 > 
 > I am using install.pl to perform the installation.  Everything goes well up 
 > until just after it asks to verify FDEFAULT.SH.  The problem occurs, I think, 
 > when it runs the INSTALL script.  Here is the bit where it starts spitting out 
 > errors:
 > 
 > AipsWiz: Unpacking the READLINE.SHR archive...
 > AipsWiz: Unpacking seemed to work.
 > AipsWiz: Unpacking the RLSUPP.SHR archive...
 > AipsWiz: Unpacking seemed to work.
 > AipsWiz: Running Readline 'configure' in quiet mode, and then make...
 > creating cache ./config.cache
 > updating cache ./config.cache
 > creating ./config.status
 > creating Makefile
 > creating doc/Makefile
 > Can't open ./doc/Makefile.in
 > creating examples/Makefile
 > Can't open ./examples/Makefile.in
 > creating config.h
 > cd . && autoconf        ## Comment-me-out in distribution
 > /usr/local/bin/autoconf: /usr/local/bin/autom4te: not found
 > make: *** [configure] Error 1
 > AipsWiz: Error: Either the configure or make step failed in
 > AipsWiz: Error: /aips/31DEC04/SOL/LIBR/GNU/.
 > AipsWiz: Error: This means INSTEP3/INSTEP4 will not work.
 > AipsWiz: ==> Press <ENTER> to acknowledge::
 > 
 > 
 > Any light that you could shed on this problem would be much appreciated.
 > 

do you have a libreadline.a somewhere already on your system?  The
READLINE.SHR we distribute is awfully old and there may be some make
problem with it.  I will try to investigate but do not know if I can
tell much.

Eric Greisen