Marco, Peter, Marco wrote:

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I'm currently making my way into Linux, so I decided to change most of my programs to this plattform, which obviously include ifeffit ;) I downloaded the ".tar" file, ran with success the PGPlot script for the graphics library installation (at least the demos run!!),

Great! Getting PGPLOT to work is progress!

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and executed the "configure" script, getting the message "ready for the next step"...however I also get the following info: checking termcap.h usability... no checking termcap.h presence... no checking for termcap.h... no <snip>

Peter suggested:

the ifeffit installation script didn't find the termcap library on my machine (SuSE 9.2), although I had it installed using YaST. The solution was to make a symbolic link to /usr/lib/ ("ln -s /usr/lib lib") in the [installation-source]/src/cmdline directory (where "[installation-source]" of course is the place where you have unpacked the tar file).

That may be ok for getting ifeffit to run on Marco's machine, but we should probably solve the problem more correctly. Marco, would you be willing to try replacing the configure script with the one at http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/src/linux/configure This has a 5 line change lifted from recent version of Readline, which I would assume works better, and looks like is designed to avoid the error messages you got. Just replace the current ifeffit-1.2.7/configure with this one and redo the './configure ....' step. Sorry for the trouble, and thanks in advance for trying this out. --Matt

Bruce Ravel writes: On my SUSE and kubuntu machines, ncurses seems to be the >one that works best with the ifeffit build. But ncurses >might not get installed by default.

Yeap, for me even the termcap library was not installed on my Suse machine (that explains a lot!!). However i did have the ncurses library installed already. I installed the termcap library, then ran the "configure" script that Matt give but I have the same old result... checking termcap.h usability... no checking termcap.h presence... no checking for termcap.h... no so I follow Peter suggestion: "ln -s /usr/lib/" in the /src/cmdline/ directory of the uncompressed ifeffit directory and then...problem solved... Thanks Peter ______________ Marco A. Alsina Estudiante de Magíster Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Santiago, Chile (56 2) 3544873

Sorry Matt,

I installed the termcap library, then ran the "configure" script that Matt give but I have the same old result... checking termcap.h usability... no checking termcap.h presence... no checking for termcap.h... no so I follow Peter suggestion: "ln -s /usr/lib/" in the /src/cmdline/ directory of the uncompressed ifeffit directory and then...problem solved...

I guessed this was not your preferred solution ... :-( Peter -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Peter Pfalzer Universitaet Augsburg Tel: +49-821-598-3215 Lehrstuhl fuer Experimentalphysik II Fax: +49-821-598-3411 Universitaetsstr. 1 D-86135 Augsburg Germany Peter.Pfalzer@physik.uni-augsburg.de http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/exp2 --------------------------------------------------------------

Marco, By the way, which distribution are you using? If you happen to run Debian, I provide a repository with all the packages necessary and all dependencies properly set. Carlo On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, marco antoni alsina corvalan wrote:

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Bruce Ravel writes: On my SUSE and kubuntu machines, ncurses seems to be the >one that works best with the ifeffit build. But ncurses >might not get installed by default.

Yeap, for me even the termcap library was not installed on my Suse machine (that explains a lot!!). However i did have the ncurses library installed already. I installed the termcap library, then ran the "configure" script that Matt give but I have the same old result... checking termcap.h usability... no checking termcap.h presence... no checking for termcap.h... no so I follow Peter suggestion: "ln -s /usr/lib/" in the /src/cmdline/ directory of the uncompressed ifeffit directory and then...problem solved... Thanks Peter

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Hi Marco, On 9/8/05, marco antoni alsina corvalan wrote:

Hello again everyone,

As I posted yesterday, the symbolic link suggested by Peter worked for me fine, but I agre with Matt in that a solution included in the installer is needed, and as I mencioned to Matt before, yes the new "configure" script also solves the problem, although I have no idea why for me it didnt the first time I use it (as I reported previously...I was wrong). Thanks Matt..

I think it didn't work the first time because './configure' is "clever" and keeps a cache of values that it uses on subsequent runs. So running 'make distclean' was necessary to make './configure' really search for the termcap, etc libraries. But I'm glad to hear it worked, because that means the new configure will work for the next person who tries. I'll post a new .tar.gz file soom.

* Attempting to fetch a directory listing from http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/packages/ could not fetch http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/packages/from server

I have the feeling that this is an easy one to solve, however I have tried to run the script without my firewall ending with the same result, so once again a push here may be the final one I to get the package installed.

This is probably because Bruce has been migrating web pages around and some links to .....washington.edu/~ravel/.... are (temporarily??) broken. --Matt

Peter Pfalzer writes:

Marco: Did you remove the symbolic link to /usr/lib >before trying out Matt's new configure script???

Mmm, I thought that the symbolic link was stored in memory during a session, but is actually stored in a file...(every day I'm learning more about this Linux stuff)so it doesnt get removed after restarting the computer. Well, I remove the link, and yes, for me it also appears the "cannot find ltermcap" message; make[3]: Entering directory `/home/user/Programas/ifeffit-1.2.7/src/cmdline' cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -g -O2 -c iff_shell.c cc -g -O2 -L./lib/termcap -o ifeffit iff_shell.o ../lib/libifeffit.a -L/usr /local/pgplot -lpgplot -lpng -lz -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 .../../readline/libread line.a -ltermcap -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.4 -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i 586-suse-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i586-suse-linux/lib -lfrtbegin -lg2c -lm -lgc c_s /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -ltermcap collect2: ld returned 1 exit status So the script itself appears to fail without the symbolic link. Please, dont think I know much about Linux commands, because like anyone starting with something new, I dont. Therefore anything that for you may appear as obvious is not necessarily obvius for me. Besides that, please forgive my lack of experience on this, I'm willing to give any feedback testing new scripts or anything else needed for better understanding of the problem. ______________ Marco A. Alsina Estudiante de Magíster Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Ambiental Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Santiago, Chile (56 2) 3544873

On Thursday 08 September 2005 10:42, marco antoni alsina corvalan wrote:

That would be great!. Although ncurses was installed on my SUSE machine, I didnt knew how to use it to install ifeffit, so I had to go the other way installing termcap and then installing ifeffit.

I thought the Ifeffit configure script knew to try several different terminal management libraries. My (vague) memory was that when I installed ncurses, Ifeffit's configure script settled on that. Your milage may vary.

However I bumped into another issue, when I execute the "perl horae_update" I get the following message:

*  Attempting to fetch a directory listing from       http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/packages/ could not fetch http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/packages/from server

I have the feeling that this is an easy one to solve, however I have tried to run the script without my firewall ending with the same result, so once again a push here may be the final one I to get the package installed.

You seem to be using a very old version of the horae_update script. Try grabbing the latest from http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/downloads.html#unix It's the link that says "Here is a perl script". It's probable that the horae_update script will default to trying to use a SourceForge mirror in North America or Europe, which might be slooooow for you. You might be better off downloading and installing the horae tarball by hand using whichever SourceForge mirror you find fastest (perhaps the one in Curitiba). Good luck, B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- bravel@anl.gov -or- ravel@phys.washington.edu Environmental Research Division, Building 203, Room E-165 Argonne National Laboratory phone and voice mail: (1) 630 252 5033 Argonne IL 60439, USA fax: (1) 630 252 9793 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/