[daip] help with "MAXPIXELS LOADED TO AP"

[Eric Greisen]

Tara Chaves writes:

 > My version is the 31DEC02 AIPS.  During the installation process, I 
 > downloaded and compiled the recommended GNU 2.95.3 compiler, as per the 
 > instructions at the time on the AIPS website.  I did have a fatal error 
 > message during the compile but then I made some minor changes to some 
 > files and it all went fine.  I later found these same changes on your 
 > website under "patches".
 > 
 > Oh, I also ran the DDT and Y2K tests after my AIPS installation and 
 > everything seemed fine then.
 > 
 > What do you think?
 > 

I remember getting these messages a lot as a consequence of the 2.96
compiler.  Can you cd to your $SYSLOCAL area and see which compiler is
actually used (read FDEFAULT.SH).  Then do

<full_path>g77 --version

If FDEFAULT is too confusing e-mail it to me

I do not see anywhere else that this message occurs.  Note that this
is a message that in principle cannot ever occur.  It does a histogram
over the windows, selects a level in that histogram s.t. < MAXPIXELS
are present and then loads those pixels --- and the message suddenly
claims that there are more pixels above that level.  We saw this a lot
with the 2.96 compiler.

I am guessing from your remarks on patches that you are on RedHat 9
which should be free of the 2.96 abomination.  The 3.2.2 compiler that
comes with it is okay so long as the last 31DEC02 patch is applied.
This leaves me confused....

Eric Greisen