Sorry to be late in replying. Here are some answers (Matt can confirm). On Jun 14, 2004, at 7:39 AM, Stefano Ciurli wrote:
Hi Matt and thanks for your message. I have a couple of addiitonal questions:
0. install fink and fink's g77 and wget.
done, using fink install wget; OK
1. install the Ifeffit binary from ifeffit-1.2.5a_Mac10.3.dmg. This step is to install PGPLOT correctly: the problem in question is not with PGPLOT.
done. OK.
2. install Perl/Tk from source: 2.1 download Tk-804.027.tar.gz from a CPAN site ~> wget http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/NI-S/Tk-804.027.tar.gz
QUESTION: is there a directory where I should download the file and then follow up with the subsequent instructions?
You can download Tk to whatever directory you like to. Once you have the source, just type perl Makefile.PL (it configures itself) make (it builds a binary) sudo make install (it installs perl/Tk into the current perl directory tree)
2.2 unpack Tk-804.027 ~> tar xvzf Tk-804.027.tar.gz 2.3 change line 2809 of pTk/mTk/tixGeneric/tixHList.c from '#if 0' to '#if 1' 2.4 build Perl/Tk: ~>perl Makefile.PL ; make 2.5 install Perl/Tk ~>sudo make install
3. install ifeffit from source: 3.1 download: ~>wget http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/src/ifeffit-1.2.5.tar.gz
QUESTION: : is there a directory where I should download the file and then follow up with the subsequent instructions?
3.2 unpack: ~>tar xvzf ifeffit-1.2.5.tar.gz 3.3 configure ~>./configure --prefix=/Applications/Ifeffit
QUESTION: I do not seem to have, in tcsh, the command "configure"
"./configure" is a shell script (from the gnu project) that exists in the source directory. It is not a preinstalled command. It checks what resources (libraries etc.) are available on the the machine a given source is being compiled upon and makes a configuration script that compensates for compiler/library/other differences. As such it is in principle different for every package.
3.4 build ~> make 3.5 install ~> sudo make install
4. install horae 4.1 set up to use ifeffit: ~>. /Applications/Ifeffit/bin/iff_init.sh if you're using bash and ~>source /Applications/Ifeffit/bin/iff_init.csh if you're using csh or tcsh (if you don't know which shell you're using, try both and whichever complains is the wrong one!) 4.2 install horae ~>horae_update --force
I had some trouble doing this earlier (with Tk) in that some objects were undefined. The reason I tried the installer was that from 034 (I think) the linking of horae was changed sometime around then and it looked like it was going to take a while to figure it out (and I had data to analyze). I think I did try once installing my own Tk (with horae 035), but experienced linking errors which made me give up. I now realize that if things stop working, there is nothing to debug unless you build everything from source again like I was doing. I think I will give it a try again too so I will pay attention to the discussion. I think I understand everything in principle, but I would like to build the pgplot library myself (as this is the only bit I have not built from source on my machine and this may have been the source of the linking problems I was experiencing earlier. Regarding some of the most recent problems with the stability of artemis-- I am still a little confused by some of Bruce's comments (and on the other hand a little optimistic) -- he said that he understood the cause of some of the recent errors being reported (due to recent Tk library incompatibilities) and would fix them when he had time. The thing I don't understand is that I had been using the latest Tk libraries for about a year without the sort of trouble that people are experiencing (well, there were some errors, but I was fitting data without worrying too much about artemis). I thought things might have stabilized (due the efforts of Matt in making a compile subsystem for the Mac).
QUESTION: Is there a directory where I should download the file and then follow up with the subsequent instructions?
The directories location may be crucial, as well as the solution to the configure command.
another QUESTION: are there any files I should delete and from which directory before doing the whole thing from scratch?
Also: Is the question related to which Tk/perl version I should have installed still valid? It is not clear, from your web page, whether the comments for the Linux installation are also related to the OSX.
The latest version of Tk (027) has been out for a couple of months now and I was using this with horae 034 for quite a while with few problems. The location of the source directories is not important (only that you have proper permissions set for them). Tk installs its output in the perl tree where horae can find it. The location of the source is irrelevant. The same goes for the source of ifeffit. The installation order is important, however in that pgplot and ifeffit, and Tk must be installed before horae.
Looking forward to hearing from you. Stefano -- ____________________________________________
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