[daip] Installation problems

[Eric Greisen]

Atish Vyas wrote:
> I am a PostDoc in University of Amsterdam and a regular user of aips.
> I am trying to install '31DEC07.tar.gz' using 'install.pl' and I tried 
> it several times but everytime it gives the same problem. I have listed 
> the output in the file 'Install_Fail.dat' attached herewith. Could you 
> please go through the file and help me resolve the problem ?
> 
> I am using Linux system and gcc-4.1 compiler.
>

Looking at the output you sent:

Your C compiler cannot find the most elementary include files required 
by most C subroutines and programs.  Since the fundamental tools of AIPS 
system builds do not themselves build, I did not examine the rest of the 
output since I would expect nothing else to work.

The AIPS web site states that 4.1.x is believed not to work on aips.

May I recommend the binary installation instead?  So long as you do not 
plan local development of aips routines, this is both much easier to 
install and will execute faster on Intel cpus than the load modules 
produced by gfortran.

         perl install.pl -n

You may have to edit the file ~/.AIPSRC first to change the parameter
INSTALL_FROM_NET = NO
to YES.

Eric Greisen