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

Wed Aug 29 04:40:17 EDT 2007

... I forgot the promised files, here they are...
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On Aug 29, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Leonardo Testi wrote:

> 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 ?:
>>> /home/ltesti/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/ZWINC2.c:51: error: storage  
>>> size
>>> of ? isn?t known
>>> /home/ltesti/AIPS/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/ZWINC2.c:53: error: ?  
>>> 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 ? to incomplete type ?
>>
>> 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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