[daip] AIPS compile problem - You can ignore the previous message

[Jim Bodie]

Hi there.  You can probably ignore my previous note (included here for 
your reference).  While reading the Install Wizard guide, I must have 
completely missed the SUL platform.  The installed offered SOL which is 
for Solaris so I didn't think anything of it.  While digging throguh the 
various documents you offer, I came across SUL.  I just performed a binary 
install using SUL as the platform type and finally, everything downloaded 
and installed.

I would think that using SOL for the platform type should be compatable, 
but I'm not concerned.  I have an install and can move on.  Thanks!

Jim Bodie

// Jim Bodie, RIT Center for Imaging Science, <jabpci at cis.rit.edu>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:26:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Bodie <jabpci at cis.rit.edu>
To: aipsmail at nrao.edu
Subject: AIPS compile problem

Greetings.  Jim Bodie here again.  I want to thank you for fixing the problem 
you had with the full disk.  I was able to download everything this morning. 
However, that does not mean I had a lot of success with the install...

I first tried a binary only installation.  The file MAKE.BMNJ failed to 
download and I could not do a "RUN FILAIP" as that was missing.  I then decided 
to try a compile.  It failed during the INSTEP2 step.  It compiled for quite a 
while until it got to "Process    $APLGEN/...".

It looks like everything failed to compile.  There were mostly messages 
pertaining to improper union data type definitions.  While I normally don't 
mind tweaking C source to make it work, I don't want to delve into something 
the size of AIPS!

The only change I made was to change -xtarget=generic to -xtarget=ultra as we 
have nothing here that is older than the UltraSPARC platform.  I changed the 
"ultra" back to "generic" in the .AIPSRC file and that made no difference.

My compiler is the Sun Studio 11 compiler with all the current patches. We'd be 
running Studio 12, but I haven't had time to upgrade just yet. Can you tell me 
what version of the Sun compiler suite you use to test that AIPS will actually 
compile?

If there is anything I described in the above text that stands out, please let 
me know ASAP.  My astronomers are rather anxious to be able to use the 2007 
version of AIPS.  Thanks!

Jim Bodie

// Jim Bodie, RIT Center for Imaging Science, <jabpci at cis.rit.edu>