Re: feff8.2x compilation on linux

["John J. Rehr" <jjr@leonardo.phys.washington.edu>]

  As Matt has noticed, the present feff8 source is hard wired
for IRIX, and there are no tools to configure the Makefiles to
other architectures at the moment. This is inconvenient for other
developers and we apologize. The reason is that Alex is doing
much of the recent development on IRIX and J. Sims was also
able to use this for the parallel development.  We do hope to fix
this, but anyone who want's to volunteer to help improve the Makefiles to
speed up the process is welcome to do so. As usual, please complain to
the developers if this is an urgent problem. 
> 
> Has anyone built feff8 from the CVS tree on linux?  It took
> me about 45 minutes to get it to compile, and I had to alter
> essentially every Makefile (somewhere around 15 Makefiles
> altered) in the process. It looks to me like all the Makefiles
> are hardwired for IRIX.  Has anyone else tried this?
> 
> The 'vers.h' I see in feff82/src/HEADERS says 8.20x4. I assume
> that's the latest version, but haven't seen any announcement
> for that version in this mailing list, so I'm unsure. I've also
> seen a lot of reference to '8.24', but can't tell if that's the
> same version or not. How can I tell what the latest version is?
   There was an e-mail message from J. Sims that was circulated
to everyone in this list about this test version of the code.
It is not meant as an official release.
 
> Whatever the version, there must be an easier way to do compile
> Feff8 on linux.  What Am I missing?

  Follow the instructions in the Readme for making the fortran
modules for either the sequential or parallel versions, and then
use the feff_comp.g77 compile script in the Test/mod directory.
Please complain if that doesn't work or works and you still don't 
like it.

   J. Rehr