[daip] aips on linux/amd64, multihost site

[Eric Greisen]

Vincent.McIntyre at csiro.au writes:

 > 
 > Ah, but people coming to get the package may view it as separate,
 > particularly when their linux distribution emphasises the differences
 > between amd64 and i386 by providing complete sets of binaries for each.
 > That's what prompted the question; it was unclear from just the
 > information on the web pages if amd64 was supported.
 > Ditto for, say, linux on sparc.

Linux on sparc - curious that we have not encountered that.  We have
encountered people trying to use gnu compilers under Solaris.  I
suspect AIPS does not do the former (although it could) and is awkward
but would do the latter.  I still push binary distributions.

 > 
 > > site and use our binary install.  I suppose that curtails local AIPS
 > > software development, but do you still do that?  I know you once did,
 > > but we have worked to reduce the need for that I thought to zero -
 > > unless you have new/different tasks not ported to us.
 > 
 > We still need to build ATLOD, that's the only outstanding task I am
 > aware of. Also some local users have written their own versions of
 > tasks that they need to build. So we will probably continue building
 > our own binaries.
 > 
gfortran 4.2.1 works well and the Intel compilers are pretty good for
Intel chips.

Eric Greisen