[daip] installation problem with readline

[Deborah Haarsma]

Hi Wes,

The semester has ended, and we're back to trying to install aips on
the linux machine.  Below is the correspondence we had several weeks
ago.  Here's the latest:
1. I noticed that screen 10 of insall.pl lists where aips should look
   for the readline library.  The default is /usr/lib/libreadline.a, a
   file which doesn't exist on my linux installation.  I have
   /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4.3.  I tried telling aips to use that, and
   got even more error messages.
2. I tried installing a new version of libreadline, but I'm not sure
   where to look for it on the web (we have virtually no support here,
   so I do all my own system work too).  I found
   readline-4.3-5.2.i386.rpm, but when installing it rpm said it
   conflicted with files I already have installed.

What can I try next?

Debbie

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Eric Greisen wrote:
> Doesn't RedHat simply come withb readline already installed?
>
> Otherwise, all the 100's of RedHat AIPS installations would all have
> had such troubles...

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Wes Young wrote:
> I think the best option is to include a more modern version of readline
> in the AIPS distro.  I will talk with Eric about adding it. To solve
> your short term problem, I would suggesting getting the latest version
> readline from gnu and installing it into /usr/local (there is an option
> in the install script to specify whether to install readline or use an
> existing copy).  You should check to see if libreadline is installed in
> /usr/lib, if not I can supply directions if you or your system folk
> need them.
>
> wes
> wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu
>
> On Oct 28, 2004, at 11:53 AM, Deborah Haarsma wrote:
>
> > A brand new linux installation of redhat 9.
> > Typing uname -a implies it is linux version 2.4.20-8smp
> >
> > Debbie Haarsma
> >
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Wes Young wrote:
> >
> >> It's likely the old version of readline distributed with AIPS doesn't
> >> recognize your newer machine.  What kind of machine/OS are you
> >> installing on?

> > On Oct 28, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Deborah Haarsma wrote:
> >
> > > AIPS experts,
> > >
> > > I've installed aips many times, including several times in Linux, and
> > > not encountered this error.  Near the beginning of install.pl it says
> > >
> > > AipsWiz:  =====> Configuring READLINE library...
> > > 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
> > > configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one
> > > make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> > > AipsWiz: Error: Either the configure or make step failed in
> > > AipsWiz: Error: /home/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/LIBR/GNU/.
> > > AipsWiz: Error: This means INSTEP3/INSTEP4 will not work.
> > > AipsWiz: ==> Press <ENTER> to acknowledge::
> > >
> > > HOSTS.LIST has a line for LOCALHOST, with architecture LINUX.
> > > Why can't it figure out the host type?


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