AIPS SunOS 5 Install Notes

Most recently updated on $Date: 1997/05/21 18:58:17 $ (UT)

• If an AIPS data area is accessed through the SunOS 5.3 automounter, access to the area the first time after it has been unmounted (automatically) may fail with "file not found". The quick fix is to try again as the first attempt will have mounted the area. The more permanent fix is to upgrade. SunOS 5.4 and 5.5 are known not have this problem.
• If you obtained the binary distribution and do not have a Fortran compiler, be sure to place the libF77.so.3 shared library (which you can find either in your $AIPS_ROOT/SOL/lib directory for tape binary installations, in $AIPS_ROOT for ftp binary installs) in /opt/SUNWspro/lib. This is necessary so that the shared library can be detected in the correct place by the dynamic loader ld.so at runtime. If you cannot place it here, try putting it in $SYSLOCAL or $AIPS_ROOT, and include this area in the definition of LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your .login or .profile initialization file. It is in general better to not have this environment variable defined at all, as it causes many problems. NOTE: This is not the same as the previously distributed libF77.so.2 library. In fact, before starting INSTEP1 it is strongly recommended that you unset this variable (use unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH for bourne-like shells and unsetenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH for c-like shells). If this is not feasible for you, then at least make sure you do not have /usr/ucblib in the definition of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable before starting the install (or if you must have it, be sure to put /usr/ccs/lib before it). Failure to heed this warning will result in multiple AIPS1's and general confusion, not to mention a real mess with file locking. The install test for 15OCT96 was done with this environment variable unset (\ie, blank).
• The install test for SunOS 5 was performed with the newest SC4 compilers from Sun. Other vendors' compilers have been reported to cause significant problems (including catastrophic failure of the DDT test). If you use any compilers other than those from Sun, you need to change the qualifiers used in the $SYSUNIX/FDEFAULT.SH, $SYSLOCAL/CCOPTS.SH, and $SYSLOCAL/LDOPTS.SH files prior to INSTEP2.