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

Wes Young wyoung at nrao.edu
Wed Aug 29 11:00:43 EDT 2007 

No need if you've done it several times already.  Can you send us the  
result of

printenv

thanks

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu



On Aug 29, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Leonardo Testi wrote:

> ...I certainly can, but I tried already several times over  
> different days...
>
> Will run once more and get back to you.
>
> L
>
> On Aug 29, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Wes Young wrote:
>
>> Leonardo,
>>
>> I suspect somethings is corrupt in the download of AIPS. Can you  
>> try downloading AIPS and installing again?
>>
>> wes
>> wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 29, 2007, at 2:39 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 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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