[daip] installing local tasks in AIPS

[Rick White]

Hi Eric,
After a lot of floundering around, I've given up on getting a compatible version of the Intel compiler installed.  In case it is helpful to you or someone else, I include below a list of some of the things I tried.

So if possible, I'd appreciate it if you can try to build these for me.  I'm not optimistic that this will go smoothly because it has been a few years since we've been able to compile these, and changes in the AIPS subroutine interfaces or common blocks could break them.  But I guess it is worth a try to see how it works.  The logic in these changes very rarely -- the most recent change in any of the code was more than 3 years ago.

I've attached a gzipped tar file that unpacks into a directory named 'bob' with two subdirectories ("other" and "happy").  If you go into the bob/ directory, there is a 1aareadme.txt file with simple instructions.  If a miracle occurs and everything works, you would just do this:

source <aips-location>/LOGIN.CSH
make

That builds a library and about a dozen executables.  If some of them fail, it would still be helpful if only 'make happy' succeeded -- that's what we use most heavily.
Thanks,
Rick

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Things I tried to get a compiler working on our system (a brand new Mac Pro running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2):

- I installed the current version of the Intel compiler (15.0.3).  The installation was successful, but I was unable to build a program that could be linked with the AIPS libraries.

- I located a version of the Intel compiler (9.1.041) that I believe is a reasonable match to the version used in the AIPS binaries.  However, I never managed to get it to install.  The initial barrier was that it requires an old version of Java for the installation process.  After some digging, I found that and installed it.  But then the installer just starts up with a blank window and there is no way to proceed.  I also tried running the installer on a Mac running a much older version of OSX (10.6.8 instead of the current 10.10), and that started up with exactly the same blank window.

- I tried digging down inside the installer and found the various executables and libraries.  I could install those by hand, but there was no way to get a license going through that approach. So I gave up on Intel at that point.  I suppose I could have asked Intel for help, but I figured they would not be that enthusiastic about helping on an installation using a trial license of a 8-year-old compiler (version 10.0 was released in June 2007 according to Wikipedia).

- I also tried both the current gnu gfortran and the old g77 compiler, just to see if either of them worked.  Not surprisingly, they didn't.

On Jul 1, 2015, at 6:51 PM, Eric Greisen wrote:

> On 07/01/2015 04:18 PM, Rick White wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>> We have a small number of custom tasks that we build within AIPS for some of our survey work.  These are all Fortran programs that build using the standard AIPS build commands (FC, LINK, etc) and link to the usual array of libraries.
>> 
>> I've been trying to figure out how to get these built on Bob's new Mac Pro system.  He has the 31DEC15 version of AIPS, installed from binary (and maybe he is running the midnight job, I'm not certain about that).  The problem is that we don't have a matching Fortran compiler.  I tried installing the current version of the Intel ifort compiler, which appears to be what was used to build the binaries, but so far have failed pretty miserably in my attempts to get it to work.  I've hacked away at the options and have even looked at trying to install an old version of ifort, but nothing has really come close to succeeding so far.
>> 
>> I wonder whether you know of other people who have built additional AIPS tasks within the binary installations, and whether you have any advice about how to do it.  I'm hoping not to have to build a complete installation of AIPS from source just to add a dozen extra tasks.  I've wondered whether it would be possible to simply get access to whichever machines are used in Charlottesville for the few minutes it would take to do the builds.
>> 
>> Anyway, any advice?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Rick
> 
> Access to our local machines is very difficult to arrange (lots of security concerns).
> 
> I am surprised by the problems with intel ifort but we use a rather older version here so it could be like the latest gfortran which do not compile the Q routines correctly when optimized.  What version did you try?  We may have to upgrade our setup soon.
> 
> An alternative is to send me the code and I will build binaries and place them on my public ftp site.  That works if they are debugged and do not need frequent changing.
> 
> Eric Greisen

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