[daip] AIPS instalation aborts

[Eric Greisen]

indrajit v. barve wrote:
> hello
>       i am indrajit v barve ,here with i am sending the error msg which is
> coming while installing AIPS.  help me to fix it.
> 
> 
> 
> COMRPL    : Removed    /home/grh/gauri/31DEC07/LINUX/PREP/ZXLX8.o
> COMRPL    : Changed    /home/grh/gauri/31DEC07/APL/DEV/ZXLX8.FOR
> COMRPL    : in         /home/grh/gauri/31DEC07/LINUX/INSTALL/APLGEN.LIS
> COMRPL    : to         -/home/grh/gauri/31DEC07/APL/DEV/ZXLX8.FOR
> COMRPL    : at least one module FAILED to compile
> COMRPL    : Dies of unnatural causes
> INSTEP2   : Failure in $APLGEN/...
> INSTEP2   : compilations.
> INSTEP2   : Aborts!    Thu Oct 16 16:38:53 IST 2008
> AipsWiz: Error: INSTEP2 failed, no point in proceeding.
> AipsWiz: Error: Look in /home/grh/gauri/31DEC07/LINUX/INSTALL to see
> AipsWiz: Error: if you can figure out what went wrong.  There are
> AipsWiz: Error: many log and list files there.  You may want to do
> 
>    grep -v ^- *.LIS
> 
> 
> AipsWiz: Error: to see what modules did not compile.
> 
> AipsWiz: Install Wizard stopping.  Current settings saved in ~/.AIPSRC
> AipsWiz: Abandoning ship!  Goodbye.

The obvious first question is - did you do what the messages suggest?
     grep -v ^- *.LIS
This will show you what modules failed to compile.  Then the INSTEP.LOG 
file will show you the error messages.  One common problem can be found 
in the ~/.AIPSRC file with a reference to an older version of AIPS in 
the CCOMOPT line.

A less obvious but interesting question is whay are you compiling aips 
locally?  If you have a very non-standard operating system or plan to 
develop your own AIPS code locally, then you will probably have to 
compile locally.  Otherwise, the binary installation runs very much 
faster on most machines than the GNU local compilation (we spend real 
money on compilers).  You get the binary installation by
       perl install.pl -n
and may have to insist on binary after having attempted the other.

Eric Greisen