When trying to get 2.15ALPHA-3 up and running, I've noticed a problem with fitsutil help files and fpack task is disabled for some reason...

Help files:
In fitsutil-src.tar.gz there are 3 problems:

1.) fitsutil.hd sets $doc and $srcdir vars at the top of the file wrongly to "fitsutil$pkg/doc/" and "fitsutil$pkg/" respectively. This might be left from fixing "FITSUTIL install with 2.15alpha" [ http://iraf.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=90333 ]. The right values should probably be "./doc/" and "./src/" as they are in mscred

2.) The *.hlp files are left in src/doc/* and are not moved or put in the first place to doc/ (in doc/ there are only two txt files)

3.) Upon fixing 1.) I needed to recreate helpdb.mip, but: mkhelpdb lib/root.hd lib/helpdb.mip Segfaults. I guess this segfault is the same as the one mentioned in "mkhelpdb segmentation violation" [ http://iraf.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=90487 ]

fpack:
fpack task is commented out in fitsutil.cl but I don't really know why...

Thanks for the report. Quick story, the package source tree has been updated with a fixed version. Long story....

1.) fitsutil.hd sets $doc and $srcdir vars at the top of the file wrongly to "fitsutil$pkg/doc/" and "fitsutil$pkg/" respectively.

This came about because the 'pkg' directory was renamed to 'src' but the help directory wasn't likewise updated. The toplevel 'doc' directory is just some development notes, the actual task help pages are in fitsutil$src/doc/

3.) Upon fixing 1.) I needed to recreate helpdb.mip, but: mkhelpdb lib/root.hd lib/helpdb.mip Segfaults.

This has been fixed in the v2.15 release I'm building now, I can get you a patched binary or helpdb.mip file sooner if you prefer.

fpack task is commented out in fitsutil.cl but I don't really know why...

I'm not sure why either, it's been uncommented.