[daip] Re: aips not installing

[Eric Greisen]

sdt4 at njit.edu writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I thought you might want to know, all of these bad things go away if I treat my
 > comp as a portable one and call it LOCALHOST. 

    This is related to what I have been saying about HOSTS.LIST...

 > However, since AIPS does not work with gcc4.0 I still use my new gcc3.4.4
 > installation. Everything works great until I attempt to run
INSTEP2.

    Before running install.pl

setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib:/usr/lib

It is not looking in the right place for the 3.4.4 compiler.

Eric Greisen

 > 
 > says
 > 
 > PP.EXE: error while loading shared libraries: libg2c.so.0: cannot open shared
 > object file: No such file or directory
 > COMRPL    : Preprocessing fails!
 > COMRPL    : Leave      /home/aips/31DEC05/AIPS/SUB/VERSTR.FOR
 > COMRPL    : in         /home/aips/31DEC05/LINUX/INSTALL/AIPSUB.LIS
 > COMRPL    : unchanged as it FAILED to compile.
 > COMRPL    : at least one module FAILED to compile
 > COMRPL    : Dies of unnatural causes
 > INSTEP2   : Failure in $AIPSUB/...
 > INSTEP2   : compilations.
 > INSTEP2   : Aborts!    Fri Sep 16 15:37:20 EDT 2005
 > AipsWiz: Error: INSTEP2 failed, no point in proceeding.
 > 
 > I do have that file in
 > 
 > /usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libg2c.so.0
 > 
 > I couldn't figure out how to modify PP.EXE to look there, though. And I did
 > select the appropriate folders for my 3.4.4 versions of gcc and g77
 > (/usr/local/bin) when setting up the advanced settings (step 10 of install.pl).
 > 
 > Thanks much,
 > 
 > Sam
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >  Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu>:
 > 
 > > 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
 > >