[daip] 31DEC06 library questions

[Eric Greisen]

Cormac Reynolds writes:

 > we recently upgraded to the 31DEC06 version of AIPS (binary install). We use an
 > NFS mounted central version that runs on various machines, all with slightly
 > different versions of SUSE linux. Some machines (newer ones) appear to have a
 > problem with the 'DEFAULT' command (RESTORE 0, COMPRESS are o.k.). Some
 > parameters get set to crazy values (e.g. indisk defaults to 10**-45 instead of
 > 0) and this causes problems for scripts, etc. that use 'DEFAULT'. As far as I
 > can see so far, this is the only command that misbehaves, but I haven't done an
 > exhaustive check. The older machines seem to have no problems.
 > 
 > My guess is this is a dynamically linked library problem as the different
 > machines have different versions of these. So my question is, do you have any
 > idea which of the libraries is (are) likely to be the cause? Is there one that
 > DEFAULT uses that similar tasks such as RESTORE 0 and COMPRESS do not.

This is most bizarre.  DEFAULT is a verb - so a part of a subroutine
(AU2A which also does TGET among other things) inside AIPS.EXE.  If
the others verbs are doing what is expected, then a library problem is
very unlikely.  The dynamic libraries should be primarily the ones
that we provide.  The command

ldd $LOAD/AIPS.EXE  (or whatever)

should show the libraries.

Does DEFAULT fail for an absolutely new user on one of the new
machines or only for old users that might have an old version of the
POPS vocabulary?

Eric Greisen