[daip] AIPS can't see my data

Zachary Drew zach at astro.umn.edu
Mon Nov 15 13:32:19 EST 2004


Recompiling with 2.95.3 from your site's tarball solved the problem. 
Did you (very) recently update the texts about compilers on the site or 
did I just read (and remember) it terribly wrong?

Thanks,

-Zach


On Nov 13, 2004, at 6:25 PM, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Thanks - the gnu 3.3.3 and 3.3.4 compilers produce code that, as you
> have discovered, does not always work.  There may well be a simple fix
> - a few routines to compile no optimize - but I have not spent the
> time to find those.
>
> I recommend that you install a compiler that works.  We have the
> 2.95.3 compiler on our web site and 3.2.3 was worked on to find the
> routines that would not optimise correctly.  The aips web site has
> info on all this:
>
> http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips/
>
> http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips/compiler.shtml
>
> It seems that manufacturers have a bad record of shipping versions of
> the OS with gnu compilers that are less than reliable.
>
> Eric Greisen




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