[daip] AIPS install troubles

[Albert Dolendo Ortiz]

Why, thank you.  Installed the X11 developer tools, recompiled, and
everything's working like a charm.  I appreciate it --

regards,
Albert Ortiz, Columbia Astrophysics Lab


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Albert Dolendo Ortiz writes:
>  > Hello -- I hope this is the correct email for AIPS install help --
>
>         Yes - this is the correct address.
>
>  >
>  > /usr/local/bin/gcc  -D_BSD -DUSE_SHM -O2 -c xas.c
>  > In file included from xas.c:31:
>  > 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
>  > In file included from xas.c:31:
>  > xas.h:81: X11/extensions/XShm.h: No such file or directory
>  > make: *** [xas.o] Error 1
>  > AipsWiz: Error: Failed to build the XAS program.
>  > AipsWiz: Error: This means no AIPS TV will be available.
>
>        The code and make for XAS assume that there is a file - usually
> a soft link file named X11 in /usr/include.  On my machine this looks
> like:
>
> primate<152>$ cd /usr/include
> /usr/include
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Feb 24  2004 X11 -> ../X11R6/include/X11/
> primate<154>$ cd ../X11R6/include/X11/
> /usr/X11R6/include/X11
> primate<155>$ ls
> ap_keysym.h   Core.h        HPkeysym.h    Object.h    ShellP.h      X10.h      Xaw3d/        Xft/          Xlibint.h  Xos_r.h      Xthreads.h
> bitmaps/      CoreP.h       ICE/          ObjectP.h   SM/           Xalloca.h  Xcms.h        Xfuncproto.h  Xlocale.h  xpm.h        Xutil.h
> Composite.h   cursorfont.h  Intrinsic.h   PM/         StringDefs.h  Xarch.h    Xcursor/      Xfuncs.h      Xmd.h      Xpoll.h      XWDFile.h
> CompositeP.h  DECkeysym.h   IntrinsicP.h  RectObj.h   Sunkeysym.h   Xatom.h    Xdefs.h       X.h           Xmu/       Xproto.h
> ConstrainP.h  extensions/   keysymdef.h   RectObjP.h  Vendor.h      Xauth.h    Xdmcp.h       XKBlib.h      Xosdefs.h  Xprotostr.h
> Constraint.h  fonts/        keysym.h      Shell.h     VendorP.h     Xaw/       XF86keysym.h  Xlib.h        Xos.h      Xresource.h
> primate<156>$
>
> These X11-developer tools are needed to compile XAS (sometimes the RPM
> to load these is omitted when building the system).
>
>  > # xdpyinfo | more
>  > xdpyinfo:  unable to open display ""
>
>     I do not know where this command came from - it is not in aips
> anywhere that I can find other than documentation.  If you are running
> XWindows then xdpyinfo should show you lots of things.  If you are not
> running XWindows then none of the aips daemons will work (XAS which
> did not compile, TKSERV, MSGSRV).
>
> Eric Greisen
>
>
>  >
>  > I'm afraid I'm not entirely sure what is going on here -- could you please
>  > direct me in the right direction?  Perhaps I am missing something in the
>  > install documentation (this is my first AIPS install)?
>  >
>  > Thank you very much,
>  > Albert Ortiz
>  >
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