[Ifeffit] iXAFS3.0 - not much luck so far

[Jeff Terry]

Hi All, 

Looks like it works now on intel machines.. 
I can run ifeffit from the iXAFS shell. 

The iXAFS app is not universal though, it is Intel only.

Nice job Matt. 

Jeff


On Sep 6, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Matt Newville wrote:

> Hi Joel, All,
> 
> Yes, sorry for that.  I'm still learning how to do this.  Here's the
> latest news (some progress, incomplete):
> 
> With Jeff's earlier message I looked into and solved at least one of
> the problems:  that /Users/Newville/Codes/ifeffit/local/bin/perl
> was all over the place and expected.  Of course, this worked when I
> tested it on my own machine!!    I also found an issue with png
> support.
> 
> I put a 3.0.1 dmg with these changes at
>    http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ifeffit/src/iXAFS3.0.1.dmg
> 
> I believe this may work on 10.6 systems.
> 
> I tried this on a 10.5.7, i386 system (Julie's).  The main iXAFS app
> runs, but  I unfortunately get 'dyld' loading errors for all
> executables (including perl and ifeffit).    I do not understand this,
> as thhe executables are definitely listed as "universal", ut I suspect
> it is a x86_64 v i386 issue.    If anyone does understand this, please
> let me know.  FWIW, the machine I'm building on is less than 3 months
> old, so I think it's x86_64, but 'arch' and 'uname -p' report i386.
> On the build machine, running
>   arch -x86_64 ifeffit
> runs fine.
>   arch -i386 ifeffit
> runs, but Aquaterm does not generate a plot (using PGPLOT_DEV=/XS does
> generate a plot with both settings).   So my sense is that my box is
> really x86_64, but reports i386 and this may be causing trouble on
> real i386 machines.
> 
> What's stranger is that I also tried this on a very old G4 powerpc,
> running 10.5.  Here the iXAFS.app does not run, and indeed
> the iXAFS executable  (iXAFS.app/Contents/MacOS/iXAFS) is indeed i386
> only.   But, the ifeffit application  DOES RUN(!!!) on this machine.
> Perl runs too, but it appears I forgot to rebuild Ifeffit.pm for perl
> after some change for png support because
> perl -e 'use Ifeffit' still complains about png support.  This is
> fixable.  I'll look into making the iXAFS launcher application be
> universal.
> 
> The python problem is definitely fixable too -- sorry for such poor testing!
> 
> If you or Jeff or someone else wants to try this v3.0.1 out, that
> would be fine, but there are definitely "known problems".   I'll make
> a v3.0.2 with the perl and python fixes today.  I'll look into the
> i386 v x86_64 issues too, but that will take some research...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --Matt
> 
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Brugger, Joel (SAM)
> <Joel.Brugger at samuseum.sa.gov.au> wrote:
>> Hi Matt,
>> 
>> Not much luck with iXAFS3.0 so far.
>> 
>> Under 10.5.8 (two macbooks), iXAFS crashes at startup.
>> 
>> Under 10.6.4 (macbook pro), IXAFS opens, but clicking on athena/Artemis/Hephaestus only opens an X11 terminal.
>> 
>> I think that somehow the installer expects perl to live in /Users/Newville/:
>> 
>> $ pwd
>> /Applications/iXAFS.app/Contents/Resources/local/bin
>> b$ artemis
>> -bash: /Applications/iXAFS.app/Contents/Resources/local/bin/artemis: /Users/Newville/Codes/ifeffit/local//bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
>> $
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I also tried to install python, but something must be wrong with setup.py since files are copied to /Users/Newville. I now have such an inhabitant on my HD thanks to sudo, but even then the install failed. See details below.
>> 
>> Hope it’s nothing traumatic!
>> 
>> Thanks, JOEL
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> JoelMacBook-Silver:IfeffitPython-2.0.0 joelb$ python setup.py install
>> running install
>> running build
>> running build_py
>> creating build
>> creating build/lib
>> creating build/lib/Ifeffit
>> copying lib/__init__.py -> build/lib/Ifeffit
>> copying lib/Ifeffit.py -> build/lib/Ifeffit
>> copying lib/ifeffit_config.py -> build/lib/Ifeffit
>> copying lib/shell.py -> build/lib/Ifeffit
>> running install_lib
>> creating /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Ifeffit
>> copying build/lib/Ifeffit/__init__.py -> /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Ifeffit
>> copying build/lib/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.py -> /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Ifeffit
>> copying build/lib/Ifeffit/ifeffit_config.py -> /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Ifeffit
>> copying build/lib/Ifeffit/shell.py -> /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Ifeffit
>> byte-compiling /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Ifeffit/__init__.py to __init__.pyc
>> byte-compiling /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Ifeffit/Ifeffit.py to Ifeffit.pyc
>> byte-compiling /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Ifeffit/ifeffit_config.py to ifeffit_config.pyc
>> byte-compiling /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Ifeffit/shell.py to shell.pyc
>> running install_data
>> creating /Users/Newville
>> error: could not create '/Users/Newville': Permission denied
>> 
>> 
>> Running as SUDO:
>> 
>> JoelMacBook-Silver:IfeffitPython-2.0.0 joelb$ sudo python setup.py install
>> Password:
>> running install
>> running build
>> running build_py
>> running install_lib
>> running install_data
>> creating /Users/Newville
>> creating /Users/Newville/Codes
>> creating /Users/Newville/Codes/ifeffit
>> creating /Users/Newville/Codes/ifeffit/local
>> creating /Users/Newville/Codes/ifeffit/local/bin
>> error: can't copy 'ifeffit_shell.py': doesn't exist or not a regular file
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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