x11iraf under RHEL WS4, 64-bit

Ed Anderson wrote on Jun 20, 2006

Hi

I'm having a rough time trying to compile X11IRAF under Redhat WS 4 (64-bit).

Any comments, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-- Ed

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jun 20, 2006

Hi Ed,

Try building the sources from

http://iraf.net/ftp/pub/fitz/x11iraf-new_gcc.tgz

The list of X11IRAF work is reaching critical mass but if you could be more specific about what problems you're having I might have suggestions. Note I haven't tried any of this as 64-bit, you might want to just use 32-bit binaries if there are problems.

Cheers,
-Mike

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Ed Anderson wrote on Jun 20, 2006

Hi Mike,

I tried the 32-bit binary ... at first I got an error about not having
libtermcap.so.2 . It turned out that the 32-bit compatibility libraries were not
installed.

Now that I have libtermcap there, the next error is:

iraf@orion.phy.nau.edu% ./xgterm
xgterm: no available ptys

Any ideas?

Cheers,

-- Ed

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jun 20, 2006

Hi Ed,

Sorry I've been dragging my feet on this. The pty error is fixed using the special Fedora-had-to-go-and-break-everything binary from

http://iraf.net/ftp/pub/fitz/xgterm.fedora

Cheers,
-Mike

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Ed Anderson wrote on Jun 20, 2006

Thanks Miike,

I'm gettting closer ... now it wants libncurses.

But up2date --arch=i386 libncurses claims that there is no such package.

Do you know which package this library is in?

-- Ed

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jun 20, 2006

Try 'ncurses', on some systems I think it is in the 'termcap' or 'terminfo' packages.

-Mike

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Ed Anderson wrote on Jun 20, 2006

Situation resolved.

For the sake of anyone running RedHat.

To figure out what package is associated with a given file, use rpm -qf filename

On the 64-bit machines, where one needs the 32-bit support, you can then
get the 32-bit packages with: up2date --arch=i386 <packagename>

-- Ed

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