Hi folks, Last week, Norbert pointed out several manifestations of what appear to have been the same problem related to installing ifeffit's perl wrapper onto a linux system. Because of the difficulty installing the perl wrapper, my perl applications Athena and Atoms would not work. Among the many symptoms Norbert pointed out were such immediately intuitive (not!) messages as: ** Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux/auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.so' ** /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux/auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.so: undefined symbol: G77_getenv_0 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 200. and ** Can't load 'blib/arch/auto/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.so' for module Ifeffit: /usr/lib/libf2c.so.0: undefined symbol: MAIN__ at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 200. After some time, I finally determined that the problems he was experiencing were due to problems in the installation scripts that Matt and I had written for ifeffit + all the perl stuff. Last week I sent what I think was a solution to Matt and Norbert for testing. Norbert has informed me that he was able to install all of ifeffit and the perl wrapper and applications on his linux machine. Yay! This fix certainly applies to linux users and probably will benefit other unix-like systems, including SGI and OSX. Matt will (I presume) be including this fix in the next release of ifeffit. Having solved that problem, we will be free to move on to the next problem!!! If any of you have run into a problem that seems similar to Norbert's and would rather not wait for the next release of ifeffit, feel free to contact me privately. (But be warned that I will be at the synchrotron for the next several days, and so may not respond promptly to my mail.) Regards, B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6134 phone: (1) 202 767 5947 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 1697 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b, X24c, U4b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/