mac intel extern packages
LMCBoy wrote on Apr 23, 2006
Hello,
I have successfully installed IRAF 2.13-BETA on my macbook pro. However, I am having trouble with the extern packages mscred, stsdas and tables. Each of the tarballs contains a bin.macintel subdirectory, and a mkpkg script. I unpacked each one into its own directory under extern. The problem is that I can't run the mkpkg script. In each case, I get: "tcsh: Badly placed (."
Since it doesn't tell me on which line in the script the error occurs, I'm not sure how to fix it. Has anyone seen this issue?
thanks,
Jason
I have successfully installed IRAF 2.13-BETA on my macbook pro. However, I am having trouble with the extern packages mscred, stsdas and tables. Each of the tarballs contains a bin.macintel subdirectory, and a mkpkg script. I unpacked each one into its own directory under extern. The problem is that I can't run the mkpkg script. In each case, I get: "tcsh: Badly placed (."
Since it doesn't tell me on which line in the script the error occurs, I'm not sure how to fix it. Has anyone seen this issue?
thanks,
Jason
Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Apr 23, 2006
You need to install the 'src' tarballs as well so you have the task declarations, help pages, parameters files, etc. In all cases, get the src for a package distribution, it is only the binaries that are the optional download.
-Mike
P.S. In the 'src' tarballs from iraf.net, the mkpkg file has already been edited with the new macintel/cygwin architectures so you can build normally. The bin tarballs contain a new mkpkg and should be unpacked in the package toplevel directory (e.g. /iraf/extern/tables). They will overlay the mkpkg file so you can use source from the author and will create a bin.<arch> directory so you can run right away.
Work is planned on packaging and distribution schemes, for now everything is as it was before.
-Mike
P.S. In the 'src' tarballs from iraf.net, the mkpkg file has already been edited with the new macintel/cygwin architectures so you can build normally. The bin tarballs contain a new mkpkg and should be unpacked in the package toplevel directory (e.g. /iraf/extern/tables). They will overlay the mkpkg file so you can use source from the author and will create a bin.<arch> directory so you can run right away.
Work is planned on packaging and distribution schemes, for now everything is as it was before.
Last post on Apr 23, 2006