[daip] AIPS instalation aborts

[Eric Greisen]

indrajit v. barve wrote:
> hello Eric
>          i am very new to linux and AIPS . as per as aips installation i
> run the program install.pl , then i supplied the parameters,
> name, root area...etc.
> then its starts installation process. after some it it was stooped with
> this msg. now what i have to do with this....
> ++ 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    : 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.
>
I asked you 2 questions above.  You have not answered them and there is 
little more I can do to help you without additional information.

Eric Greisen