(15 Feb 2001) Installing AIPS++ 1.5 on a Mandrake 7.1 release ('Helium')
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      (sigh, after not being able to get a clone of a redhat 6.2 system)


We'll be doing a consortium installation, but as a mortal (teuben) user,
not aips2adm or whichever they prefer, since we have no control over
the usernames here.

What follows below closely follows the 'AIPS++ Installtion'
section in the "AIPS++ System Manual", but there are some outdated
sections in there.


mkdir -p /cetus/aips15/code
cd /cetus/aips15/code				(df showed 12 GB free)
ncftp aips2.nrao.edu
  cd /pub/code
  mget README VERSION configure install-*
  quit
  #   note it also gets some older install- files
chmod +x configure
./configure --source

# we will only install the latest (15.000 in my case)
# accept 'linux_egcs' as architecture
# we're using 'umd' as site name
# enter some numbers like numcpu, lp/letter for printer
# in makedefs etc.

a lot of output to screen, not readable..... what to
edit now .....

I wind up removing the makedefs file in $AIPSARCH/umd, and 
replacing it with the one i figured would work for redhat6.2

Few minor changes for mandrake7.1 - (egcs -> gcc)

#   copy $MIRLIB/*pgplot* stuff to $AIPSLIB
#   copy libblas* liblapack* from old $AIPSLIB into new $AIPSLIB
#   copy XmPgplot.h to $AIPSLIB
#   copy libXmPgplot.a to $AIPSLIB



# old compiler on rh62 was egcs (2.91.66) - new one on mdk is
# gcc (2.95.3)


# The file /cetus/aips15/code/build.log contains a log of
# this bootstrap install. The actual install (inhale) can
# now begin.

# first load in the proper environment

source /cetus/aips15/aipsinit.csh


# now inhale, but we want to only do up to the latest stable (-b), 
# 15.200 in our case. And we're not making it (-n), we'll gmake it
# afterwards...

inhale -n -b

# now the install can start

mkdir ../logs-teuben
gmake allsys >& ../logs-teuben/LOG.15.200


# pretty decent, aips++ started, but two minor problems
# apparent:

#   - $AIPSDATA not there, that causes complaints
#     solved it by symlinking to the other release on disk, since
#     $AIPSDATA might as well be shared by all distributions
#	
#   - $PGPLOT_DIR not set, also problem, make it $AIPSLIB
#     but even after than

#   - pgplot.g was never copied into $AIPSEXEC, do that manually, i found
#     it in code/aips/glish/glish/clients/glishtk/pgplot/linux_egcs/pgplot.g
	

Error in the LOGS when starting up AIPS++
Neither pgplot environment variables PGPLOT_FONT, PGPLOT_DIR are not defined: 
	labelling on plots will not be available
Recommend setting PGPLOT_FONT to location of pgplot grfont.dat file
Environment is not optimum for AIPS++



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If you want to do local development:


cd ~/aips++
mktree				(say yes, to mirror the tree)
cd code/bima/apps/bimafiller
gmake bimafiller		(this will compile with -g)


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