[daip] Re: aips not installing

[Eric Greisen]

sdt4 at njit.edu writes:
 > 
 > I only find a file called frtbegin.o in a different folder within the gcc-3.4.4
 > directoy, no matter how I install this thing. Since this is concernig AIPS, my
 > question is:
 > 
 > If I setenv $LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/directorywhereitactuallyis

   I don't think that a .o file will work for a library.

 > 
 > do you think at least that part would work? Do you think it might affect other
 > portions of the AIPS install? 

    Yes - I expect that you will see this on every link edit since we
make no mention of this library in AIPS, it is something that your
compiler is adding to the link process.

 > I think the XAS problem was an incompatible compiler, which might be fixed with
 > this 3.4.4 install. I hope. 

    I think that it was more like a problem in the HOSTS.LIST file
since it was not using a recognized architecture to do the make.

 > P.S. Did you mean binary install of GCC? 
 > 
 > 
 > > 
 > > You might consider trying the binary install - the Intel compiler
 > > produces load modules that are 35% faster on our Pentium IVs than the
 > > ones produced by the GNU compiler.
 > > 

Actually I meant the binary install of aips itself.  Bypass getting a
working compiler.  If you do

     perl install.pl -n

it will use the network to download binaries and libraries enough to
run aips.   The MNJ later will also use the binary mode.  (I was
interupted while typing my last reply and did not finish my thought
properly.)

Eric Greisen