[daip] Minor aips suggestions

[Walter Brisken]

I'm running Gentoo at home.  It is slightly more agressive with newer 
versions of software, but I expect the changes will work their way into 
RedHat at some point in the near future.  I did take the time to install 
gcc/g77 3.2.23 for aips.  It runs quite well so far.

-W

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Patrick P Murphy wrote:

> "WB" == Walter Brisken <wbrisken at aoc.nrao.edu> writes:
> 
> WB> I'm running aips on a rather new linux distribution.  
> 
> Which one?
> 
> WB> I get the following warning that will likely become more common as
> WB> more people are running with newer "head" and "tail" unix tools:
> 
> WB> head: `-1' option is obsolete; use `-n 1' since this will be removed
> WB> in the future
> 
> I've never seen this particular warning, and I'm running RedHat
> Enterprise Linux on my laptop:
> 
>   : orangutan_pmurphy; cat .profile | head -1
>   #!/opt/local/bin/bash
>   : orangutan_pmurphy; type -a head
>   head is /usr/bin/head
>   : orangutan_pmurphy; uname -a
>   Linux orangutan 2.4.21-20.EL #1 Wed Aug 18 20:58:25 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>   : orangutan_pmurphy; cat /etc/redhat-release
>   Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 3)
>   : orangutan_pmurphy; env | grep POSIX
>   : orangutan_pmurphy;
> 
> AHh... I only see that warning/error if env. variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is
> set to YES or something like that.  The only issue then is if the newer
> syntax will work on, e.g. OS/X, Solaris (yup), or other Unix variants
> that AIPS still supports.
> 
> 				- Pat
>