[daip] AIPS problem

[Wes Young]

Jose

It's likely a shared library compatibility problem between fedora and 
RH9.  Your best bet is to build AIPS from source.  Let us know how it 
goes.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu

On Apr 12, 2005, at 6:13 AM, Jose' Manuel Afonso wrote:

>
> Hello,
> I am facing the following problem with AIPS:
>
> I have been reducing 90cm continuum GMRT data with AIPS version 2003, 
> on a
> solaris 8 machine. That worked with no problems. Trying to get more 
> speed,
> I have installed the *binary* version of AIPS 2005 on a PC running
> linux-fedora.
> - I have saved the AIPS files on the solaris machine with FITTP
> - I have loaded the AIPS files on the PC with FITLD
> all seemed to work well, until I tried to generate a bandpass table on 
> the
> PC. It failed somehow, reporting thousands of excess closure errors and
> generating a BP table that is full of NAN instead of the expected 
> numbers,
> such as 4.158633E-01... As far as I can tell,
> the same AIPS fits file saved on the solaris machine, and read both on 
> the
> PC and the solaris machine again (just to check this is not due to the
> saving procedure), with no further modifications, will result in BPASS
> working fine in the solaris machine (AIPS 2003) but not on the PC (AIPS
> 2005). Many other tasks (on the PC) work well with the same file,
> however...
>
> could you help me pinpoint the problem? I think I will try to compile 
> AIPS
> on my PC machine from scratch, but if other tasks work well, I don't 
> think
> this will solve the problem.
>
> thanks
> Jose
>
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