Cannot install executables for mscred

stevenson wrote on Nov 03, 2009

Me again.

I thought mscred was working but when I try to use any of the tasks (mscimage, for example) I get the error message:

ERROR: Cannot open connected subprocess (./x_mscred.e)
"type="image")"
line 27: mscsrc$mscimage.cl
called as: `mscimage ()'

I cannot find the file x_mscred.e on the computer (Intel mac), nor any of that format (x_pkg.e) so I think the executables have not installed. "cl>show arch" gives ".macintel" as the architecture but trying to do "cl>mkpkg macintel" gives:

Warning, mkpkg line 153: could not find mkpkg module or label `macintel'
Warning, mkpkg line 153: no entry in mkpkg file for `macintel'

Running "cl>mkpkg macosx" gives:

deleting any dreg .e files left lying about in the source directories... _TFL.mkfloat: Permission denied.
grep: _TFL.mkfloat: No such file or directory
tee: _.e_files: Permission denied
cat: _.e_files: No such file or directory
_DFL.mkfloat: Permission denied.
rm: _TFL.mkfloat: No such file or directory
done
archiving and deleting generic objects... cat: _DFL.mkfloat: No such file or directory
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
tar: bin.generic/OBJS.arc: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
_TFL.mkfloat: Permission denied.
Error: cannot archive generic objects
diff: _DFL.mkfloat: No such file or directory
diff: _TFL.mkfloat: No such file or directory
rm: _DFL.mkfloat: No such file or directory
rm: _TFL.mkfloat: No such file or directory
rm: bin.generic/OBJS.arc: No such file or directory

I have tried altering the permissions of the directory, but still this problem persists. Any ideas?

Thanks.

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Nov 03, 2009

You can download pre-built binaries from http://iraf.net/ftp/iraf/extern/mscred-bin.macintel.tar.gz

Assuming you downloaded this file to the /tmp directory, you would install them using

% cd /Users/iraf/iraf/mscred
% tar zxvf /tmp/mscred-bin.macintel.tar.gz

This will create a 'bin.macintel' directory in the mscred package dir with the binaries.

-Mike

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stevenson wrote on Nov 03, 2009

Great, that fixed it. Thanks.

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