[daip] installing AIPS tasks on MACs

[Eric Greisen]

Indra Bains wrote:
> Hi Eric
> 
> I wondered if you might be able to help with an install problem I am 
> having. I have an AIPS task written by a colleague that I have 
> successfully installed on a LINUX system but it fails to install on my 
> MAC. I think this is because I am trying to use the LINUX version of 
> COMLNK, which on the MAC tries to call up the ifort compiler which I do 
> not have installed. Is there a version of COMLNK for MAC OS? Thanks.
> 
> best wishes
> Indra Bains
> 

If you have done a binary installation on your Mac (which most people 
do) then it is hard to compile tasks locally.  To use the libraries that 
come with AIPS, it is assumed that you have the compiler we use.  COMLNK 
works across platforms and uses the files in $SYSLOCAL named FDEFAULT.SH 
and LDOPTS.SH to control what is does.  The ifort compiler is used on 
Intel cpus both Linux and Mac in our binary distribution.  If this is 
more or less a once-off effort, I can compile your task here and make 
the binary available to you on the ftp site.

Eric Greisen