[daip] Installation problems

[Eric Greisen]

Atish Vyas wrote:
> Dear Eric,
> 
> Thanks ! I have solved the previous problem and the installation has 
> progressed to a better level. But not yet complete. I face another 
> problem this time. There are two errors : First associated with the X11 
> and xas.c file. Second error is "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses". I 
> have installed BDF libraries assuming that it would solve the second 
> problem but it did not.
> 
> Please have a look at the file attached herewith which will give you a 
> detailed idea about the problem.
> 
>
>         I am using Linux system and gcc-4.1 compiler.
> 
> 
>
> 
>     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.
>

The X11 compilation assumes that the X11 includes are "located" in the 
standard /usr/include area in a subdirectory names X11.  In fact, 
normally X11 is a link file e.g. X11 -> ../X11R6/include/X11/
where the necessary files are found.  Note that this is usually set up 
when one installs the rpm for "XWindows Developer".  Similarly ncurses 
is installed from the rpm for ncurses developer.

I have left some of my previous remarks above since I believe that they 
are relevant.

Eric Greisen