[daip] AIPS on 64-bit LINUX (FC6)

[Leonardo Testi]

Dear Eric,
    thanks for your reply. Attached are two files with the list of  
packages installed on the machine and the output of dmidecode (which  
I am told reads the hardware description from the computer's  
DMI, ...whatever that means). The operating system is vanilla Fedora  
Core release 6

The errors that I got for the binary installations are the following  
(it appears to download everything, I end up with ~1Gb of stuff in  
the AIPS directory after running
perl install.pl -n ):

Starting up FILAIP (RELEASE OF 31DEC07)
/home/ltesti/AIPS/31DEC07/SYSTEM/UNIX/RUN: line 157: /home/ltesti/ 
AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/LOAD/FILAIP.EXE: No such file or directory
/home/ltesti/AIPS/31DEC07/SYSTEM/UNIX/RUN: line 157: /home/ltesti/ 
AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/LOAD/FILAIP.EXE: Success
AipsWiz: Error: FILAIP did not work, or there's a missing file!
AipsWiz: Error: This may mean that FILAIP did not work (it should have
AipsWiz: Error: created it and many other files in that area).
AipsWiz: Error: You can try running it by hand after (a) dotting the
AipsWiz: Error: LOGIN.SH file or sourcing the LOGIN.CSH file; and
AipsWiz: Error: (b) Typing 'RUN FILAIP'.  You will then be asked for
AipsWiz: Error: two parameters.  Use
8 2

AipsWiz: Error: as the standard values.
AipsWiz: Error: You will also have to RUN POPSGN if that works;

AipsWiz: Error: Feed it

0 POPSDAT TST


AipsWiz: Error: when it asks for Idebug, etc. and press RETURN when
AipsWiz: Error: you see the '>' prompt.



AipsWiz: Install Wizard stopping.  Current settings saved in ~/.AIPSRC
AipsWiz: Abandoning ship!  Goodbye.
========================================================================

I then tried manually:

Razor-ltesti-49: source LOGIN.CSH
Razor-ltesti-50: RUN FILAIP
Data disk assignments:
   (Using global default file /home/ltesti/AIPS/DA00/DADEVS.LIST for  
DADEVS.PL)
    Disk 1 (1) is /home/ltesti/AIPS/DATA/RAZOR_1

Starting up FILAIP (RELEASE OF 31DEC07)
/home/ltesti/AIPS/31DEC07/SYSTEM/UNIX/RUN: line 157: /home/ltesti/ 
AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/LOAD/FILAIP.EXE: No such file or directory
/home/ltesti/AIPS/31DEC07/SYSTEM/UNIX/RUN: line 157: /home/ltesti/ 
AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/LOAD/FILAIP.EXE: Success

If I look for the file it is actually there:
Razor-ltesti-55: ll /home/ltesti/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/LOAD/FILAIP.EXE
808 -rwxrwxrwx 1 ltesti odg 823293 Jul  6 05:45 /home/ltesti/AIPS/ 
31DEC07/LINUX/LOAD/FILAIP.EXE*


Thanks for your help!

Leonardo

On Aug 28, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Leonardo Testi writes:
>> Hi,
>>     we are trying to check whether AIPS can be installed on a new
>> multi processor 64-bit machine running Fedora Core 6.
>>
>> I am running into some problems with the installation/compilation and
>> was wondering whether you have some tips.
>>
>> - I tried the binary installation, but this fails (not surprising
>> perhaps)
>>    (If you think it may be useful I can send you more details)
>
>      Details would be significant.  If I understand correctly, 64-bit
> simply means that address pointers are 64 bits.  We already run on
> such machines with both the standard load modules available to binary6
> installations and ones compiled specifically for the 64-bit machine.
> The former out perform the latter since Intel compilers are more
> agressive than GNU compilers in their optimizations.
>
>>
>> - I tried to compile from scratch using the install.pl script and the
>> 31DEC07.tar.gz
>>    We have installed the following compilers:
>>    gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-13)
>>    gcc34 (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-4)
>>
> The former has not been tested (yet) by us - earlier 4.x did not work
> at all with the compiler itself failing,  3.4.6 is what we used on the
> AMD 64-bit machine for local compile and what I use on my ordinary
> Linux box.
>
>>    I tried both of them and the error I have is the same.
>>    The compilation proceeds up to a point when INSTEP2 crashes
>>
>>     There is a relatively lomng list of modules that do not compile.
>>     The errors that I got from INSTEP2 are something like:
>>
>> /home/ltesti/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/ZWINC2.c: In function â:
>> /home/ltesti/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/ZWINC2.c:51: error: storage size
>> of â isnât known
>> /home/ltesti/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/ZWINC2.c:53: error: â undeclared
>> (first use in this function)
>> /home/ltesti/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/ZWINC2.c:53: error: (Each
>> undeclared identifier is reported only once
>> /home/ltesti/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/ZWINC2.c:53: error: for each
>> function it appears in.)
>> /home/ltesti/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/ZWINC2.c:53: error: invalid
>> application of â to incomplete type â
>
> These are bizarre errors having to do with your compiler and computer.
> A variable name that cannot even be printed in the basic ascii is not
> something that appears in AIPS code.  It must be coming from some
> bizarre /usr/include files - you will have to persue this.
>
> Eric Greisen
>
>
>>
>>     This is the last one, I could not scroll up the log to the
>> earlier ones.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps both compiler versions are not correct?
>>
>> Thanks for your insihts...
>>
>> Leonardo
>>
>>
>>
>>
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