[daip] Query about AIPS installation

[Eric Greisen]

On 10/05/2015 10:56 PM, ABINASH KUMAR SHAW wrote:
> My first problem is that I am in a proxied network of my institute. So
> If it is needed connect to your ftp network it does not. What to do with
> that and another question is that is gcc-4.8.4 version is compatible to
> 31DEC15 version of AIPS?
>

I do not know what "proxied" network means.  If you cannot ftp from our 
web site you cannot get our code at all and this discussion is 
meaningless.  The binary installation requires that you can use rsync to 
download the AIPS binary files - one can usually arrange to be allowed 
to do this.

I have recently worked on the AIPS code to allow it to be compiled 
locally.  I have tested gfortran 4.4.7, 4.8.3, 4.9.2, and 5.1.0 and they 
all work.  The latter require changes to $INC/PAPC.INC and to a few of 
the compile procs before doing the compilation.  Unfortunately, I have 
an experienced user with 4.8.4 and he found that OMFIT at least did not 
work with that compiler (it works with all I could try).  OMFIT is not a 
task used by most aips users so, if this is the only issue with 4.8.4, 
you could use that compiler.

Eric Greisen