Re: Problem on ISIS installation

Thank you John. I followed your suggestion and it worked. I started by 
installing heasoft-6.11 by compiling it from the source and then 
installed isis and both are now working on my debian squeeze.

Thanks again!
Federico


On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, John Houck wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:17 -0300, Federico Garcia wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have installed ISIS on my debian squeeze system but I cannot run
>> it. I get the error message attached at the end of this message.
>>
>> I have previously (months ago) installed correctly HEASOFT and SAS
>> and I have XSPEC working on my computer. ¿Could it be that I have
>> compiled them with a previous version of GCC and GFORTRAN? ¿Or that
>> I am missing some library linking?
>>
>> I appreciate your help.
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Federico
>>
>> *** isis initialization failed; using ISIS_SRCDIR = /usr/local/isis/1.6.1
>>
>> Error linking to /usr/local/isis/1.6.1/lib/modules/pgplot-module.so: /home/fgarcia/SOFTWARE/heasoft-6.9/i686-pc-linux-gnu-libc2.5//lib/libpgplot5.2.0.so:
>> undefined symbol: _gfortran_copy_string
>> Traceback: import
>> /usr/local/isis/1.6.1/share/pgplot.sl:1:<top-level>:Import Error
>> Traceback: evalfile
>> Traceback: evalfile
>> *** isis initialization failed
>
> Yes, I think the problem is that your HEASOFT was built with
> gcc-4.1/gfortran-4.1, but you're probably building isis with
> gcc-4.4/gfortran-4.4 which are the default in Debian/squeeze.
>
> Also, it looks like you're using heasoft-6.9 which was released
> in early 2010.  The current release is heasoft-6.11.
>
> I recommend compiling the current heasoft-6.11 release from
> source and then building isis with that.
>
> Thanks,
> -John
>
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