Hi Paul, I'm responding to this one on the mailing list. As many people have noticed, there are several problems with the 1.0077 distribution of Ifeffit. It seems that it should be treated as a 'test' version. Most of the problems are small from my end (that is, easy to fix, even if show-stoppers for functionality or building). I'll be changing the links to ifeffit.tar.gz to point to versions ifeffit-1.0077a.tar.gz, ifeffit-1.0077b.tar.gz, .... over the next few days for testing. If you're brave, you can try the latest test version and let me know what's not working. Otherwise, we should have a stable, working 1.0078 sometime next week, possibly with some of the wrappers using some of the new features. As more people are using Ifeffit/Athena/Sixpack for real work, it seems that having a stable version is good idea. So I'm leaning toward calling the next release (ie, 1.0078) Ifeffit-1.100 and only fixing bugs, and build problem for this version so that this can be the 'stable, recommended' version, and can get better tests and documentation to really reflect this stable version. I can then start a beta series for new features and build systems, and expect only beta testers to be affected. Any comments on this? On Thu, 8 May 2003, Paul Fons wrote:

In attempting to compile 1.0077 of ifeffit, I encountered some unresolved symbols. A grep search seems to indicate that atomic.f has the definitions, but it doesn't seem to be in the macosx makefile. Any suggestions?

Yes, two suggestions: 1. Run 'configure; make ' work from the base ifeffit directory. If this doesn't work, please let me know what fails. I'd much refer this to work, and it seems close. 2. Change line 134 of src/macosx/makefile.in to read $(srcdir)/iff_unguess.o $(srcdir)/iff_window.o $(srcdir)/atomic.o and re-run 'configure ; make'.

I am doing the build using the Makefile in src/macosx. One more thing, under 10.2 I had some problems with overlapping definitions in multiple libraries (in Apple's and Fink). The solution was to delete the "-l termcap" as well as the "-L/usr/lib" from the library options in the makefile. As I have yet to get things to link successfully, I will send you the final modifications when I resolve the symbols (at_kedge, etc.) problem.

Which is the preferred version: Apple's or Fink's? Is there any hope of getting a binary distribution for Mac OS X or at least clear and complete instructions for how to do a complete installation using Fink? --Matt