[daip] New MAC OS - tiger and AIPS

[Eric Greisen]

Stockdale, Christopher writes:

Thought 1 - send mail to daip so that Wes sees it - he is the system
guru esp for Macs

 > I think most of the dealinks are because of the OS change.  There's a lot in the MAC install guide page.
 > I am still trying to work with my compiler issue.  I know that the FDEFAULT.SH link 
 > to /sw/bin/g77 needs to be changed, but I am not sure with the MAC compilers loaded from the install
 >  disk where to link them to?  When I loaded the compilers from the NRAO site onto my earlier
 > Panther machine, the install worked fine and I put them in /usr/local/gnu...  When I tried to repeat my
 > effort on the machine, the compiler install failed.
 > 
 > I've tracked the MAC files on the TIGER machine to /usr/bin for the gcc-3.3 and gcc-4.0, but I cant
 > find a fortran compiler.

Why are you worrying about a compiler - you do not need one.  Do the
binary installation.  Typically, Apple provides a C but not a Fortran.
And the GNU Fortran may not have caught up with TIGER.  The 4.0
gcc/g77 has not been tested (and I am allergic to anything .0).

Eric Greisen