[daip] Intel question

[Bill Cotton]

Eric,

   OK, this may be the problem.  Thanks.

-Bill

"EG" == Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu> writes:

EG> Bill Cotton writes:
>> Eric,
>> 
>> In order to try and resuscitate my old AIPS software, I've got a
>> copy of the Intel compilers installed on my machines and have DEC02
>> AIPS, nearly, sorta, working.  The linker seems to have problems
>> finding routines in the AIPS libraries although they are definitely
>> there.  What I've had to do is to create a directory (where LIBR
>> doesn't trash it) with the .o files for the offending routines and
>> force the linker to always load these.  This seems to work but is
>> really ugly and will likely cause trouble.  It is not at all clear to
>> me how the troublesome routines are in any way different from the
>> others.  The troublesome ones are all in APLSUB or a few in APLNOT.
>> Did you run into this problem? And, if so, how did you fix it?

EG> If there really is APLNOT problems then no we did not.  The problem we
EG> found is that the linker will not allow you to include the same
EG> library twice in the list.  AIPS requires APLSUB and APL<arch> to be
EG> in the list twice.  Where necessary (and it does not always arise) we
EG> have made symlinks to e.g APLSUB and APLLINUX and changed LIBR.DAT to
EG> include the symlink names as the second inclusion of these libraries.

EG> Eric