[daip] Re: aips not installing

[Eric Greisen]

sdt4 at njit.edu writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I am a graduate student at the new Jersey Institute of Technology. I have been
 > working with AIPS for over a year now. Recently, we upgraded our Linux systems
 > to Fedora Core 4 and having some trouble with the installation we did a full,
 > new install. Now I am trying to reinstall AIPS and something is jut not working.
 > I will copy over what is going on below, but it seems to me that the make
 > command is not working, even though I do have that command option whe I open up
 > a terminal. As you can see from the settings, Fedora Core 4 uses a version of
 > gcc in which g77 has been replaced by gfortran. 

     AIPS has not been tested with gfortran and I would fear that it
may not work.  That is so far not your problem - see below.

 > AipsWiz: About to try to make XAS...
 > 
 > rm -f *.o xas XAS
 > c xas.c

Note that the Makefile for XAS does not have a correct compiler.
Check your ~/.AIPSRC file for the CCOM line.  Also check that the
HOSTS.LIST file in $AIPS_ROOT actually knows about your current
computer name.  This error usually arises because install.pl does a
LOGIN.SH before trying to make XAS and for some reason does not
recognize the HOST (and hence the ARCH).  For example, if you declared
yourself to be a laptop this time there must be a LOCALHOST in
HOSTS.LIST.  Sometimes a pre-existing HOSTS.LIST files seems not to
get any new info and so this trouble arises.

Eric Greisen