Re: ISIS and heasoft 6.6

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:48 -0500, Michael Nowak wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2008, at 7:06 AM, John Houck wrote:
>
> >The newest xspec release has introduced some changes that are
> >incompatible with the xspec module in the currently released
> >version of isis.  I discovered this particular problem
> >yesterday and after getting past it with a simple workaround,
> >I encountered another problem as well.
>
> Keep in mind that essentially every 0.0.1 increment of HEASOFT, John
> has to twiddle the make files on ISIS because the XSPEC folks have
> changed something.

In this case, the problem is not the makefiles.

If I understand the problem correctly, my preferred solution
will involve changing the names of a few symbols newly
introduced with heasoft-6.6.  If the heasoft developers
disagree, then I'll have to look for a different solution.

(This is not the $specfile problem that Gulab mentioned).

Thanks,
-John

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