[daip] aips installation

[Eric Greisen]

achung at astro.umass.edu writes:
 > Dear Eric,
 > 
 > As I expected our system manager is not very friendly about taking
 > care of AIPS (installation + management) and I was given the new
 > computer without it, so here I need your help.
 > 
 > I got gcc 4.0 on the system which will cause problems in installing
 > according to the notes. I just downloaded gcc-2.95.3.tar.gz and the
 > note is not very clear to me. The system manager at least gave me
 > the permission to write under /usr/local, so I guess I should be able
 > to install it. But, I have /usr/local/gcc already which is gcc-4.0
 > and I shouldn't replace with the lower version of gcc, as long as I
 > understand. Then what should I do? (e.g. shouldn't the note "If you
 > want the location to be elsewhere..." be "You should locate it,..."?
 > in this case?) Thanks.
 > 
Do yiou expect to write your own aips tasks.  If not, why don't you
install aips in binary form using our compilers.  They produce code
that runs faster and you do not have to swqeat all the compiler
nonsense.

Simply fetch install.pl and do

        perl install.pl -n

Eric Greisen