[daip] Building AIPS on AMD Athlon 64 bit system

[Ramesh Balasubramanyam]

 Thank you Eric. Hmmm... next time I send you any email I'll use the
subject field!!! I am to try and compile it sometime next week. If I run
into problems that I can't get much local help on, I'll get back to you. I
will also let you know if everything goes well and AIPS is humming along
on my 64 bit system at home! Thanks again.

 cheers
 ramesh

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Ramesh Balasubramanyam writes:
> 
> Your main error was to send an e-mail with no subject.  If we were
> receiving spam at our usual rate I would have deleted your mail
> without a second look.  I accidentally noticed the mail address and
> decided to check.
> 
>  >  I wish to install AIPS on Fedora Core 4 OS, running on a 64 bit AMD
>  > Athlon 2800+ machine. Will the build from the source work? Can I take
>  > advantage of the 64 bit arch.?  What are the other s/w (g77, gcc, pgplot
>  > etc.) that I need to have for a successful installation of AIPS? I looked
>  > for this info on your web pages and could not locate. But, if I had been
>  > sloppy, excuse me and point me to the right URL(s). Thanks.
> 
> The 31DEC05 version of AIPS has recently had the dynamic memory code
> corrected to use INTEGER*8 for pointers on 64-bit computers.  All
> tasks that use dynamic memory, except for a special trick in FRING,
> are then able to use whatever memory the system throws at it.  In
> general, AIPS does not need really large memory (i.e. > 2 gigabytes)
> but these systems sometimes assign dynamic memory a very long way from
> program memory (in virtual address space).
> 
> If you wish to install AIPS from source, you will obviously require
> compillers.  The usual ones are g77 and gcc and there is a substantial
> discussion of them on the aips home page
>     http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips
> The summary is that gcc versions 3.2.3 and 3.4.3 and 3.4.4 all seem to
> work okay.  Versions 3.4.2, 3.3.x, and 4.0 do not work with aips.
> 
> You will need to have ncurses and X11 developers code loaded with your
> system but you do not need anything else.  We do not use pgplot or
> cfitsio or other such packages.
> 
> Eric Greisen
>