[daip] Installation problems

[Atish Vyas]

Dear Eric,

Our communication regarding the AIPS installation problems is attached
below.
I have managed to solve the problem with the help of some of my friends.
Considering that you might be receiving several mails regarding such
problems, I am attaching (a .dat file with a short description of the
problem/message and its solution is attached) the solution herewith in hope
that it will be useful to others too.

Thanks,
- Atish .

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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