Hey Mike I tried to follow your instructions, but I cannot get Xspec to install as 64-bit version. Do you have an idea of what could be going wrong? I attached the log files. Kind Regards Mette 2013/11/20 Michael Nowak <mnowak_at_email.domain.hidden > > On Nov 20, 2013, at 1:20 PM, John Houck <houck_at_email.domain.hidden> > > Mike Nowak recently gave somewhat different advice here: > > http://space.mit.edu/cxc/isis/archive/2013/0911.html > > My, possibly outdated advice (it was one Mac OS ago, and one major > version number ago on Xcode, despite this being just last August) is > appended below. > > It's very easy these days to get 32 bit/64 bit accidentally mixed on an > Apple system. Apple's really are going whole hog into 64 bit, so I think > it's a matter of sooner or later that HEASOFT will have to follow suit > and finally commit to 64 bit on Apple. In the meantime, I've just found > it easier to maintain an XSPEC only 64 bit build, and a whole of > HEASOFT 32 bit build, and have everything else on my Apple build > 64 bit. > > Let me know if anything is unclear in the appended. > > Cheers, > > Mike > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > August 18, 2013 > > How I Built HEASOFT (v6.14) and ISIS (v1.6.2-26) on my Apple Laptop > ================================================================= > (Running OS X 10.8.4), Such That They Play Nicely Together > ========================================================= > > General Comments: > > Getting a consistent set of astrophysical software working on an Apple > machine can be tricky. It is often made more complicated by users > having downloaded a number of different packages (via Fink, Macports, > various different astrophysical packages, etc.) that may include > incompatible versions of libraries. Problems are more likely to arise > if links to these software packages/libraries are automatically placed > in a user's path when starting up a terminal window. > > A general rule of thumb is this: be aware of what you have downloaded, > know where it has been placed on your computer, and don't > automatically place these packages into your path until you actually > need them. > > For example, when I open a terminal window on my laptop, I do not > automatically place any of the HEASOFT or CIAO software into my paths. > Instead I have a command: > > %> setxspec > > which invokes: > > #! /bin/csh -f > setenv HEADAS > /usr/local/xspec_only/heasoft-6.14/x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0 > source $HEADAS/headas-init.csh > setenv LMODDIR /usr/local/xspec_lmodels/heasoft_6.14 > > The same is true for when I use the CIAO software. (In the above, and > in what follows below, %> refers to a command line prompt in an Xterm > terminal window.) > > The advice below is written for Apple Mountain Lion. I realize that > many people are still running Snow Leopard (since Snow Leopard > maintains backwards compatibility with PPC architecture via running an > emulator). A lot of astrophysical software was becoming more > difficult to maintain for Snow Leopard, so about 6 months ago I > switched to Mountain Lion. I do *not* recommend switching from Snow > Leopard to Lion - go all the way to Mountain Lion if you are going to > make the switch. It is likely that a lot of astrophysical software > will become "Mountain Lion" only in the not too distant future. > > (Side note: These instructions, however, were successfully followed by > someone who built the software on an Apple Lion, OS X 10.7.x system.) > > %%%%%% > > 1. Getting started: Make sure that your Apple Xcode is up to date, and > that you have installed *all* of the Xcode developer tools. (The > developer tools are not automatically installed when installing > Xcode.) Currently, I am running Xcode v.4.6.3. > > Likewise, Apple no longer ships with an Xterm program, so make sure > that you have Xquartz installed: > > http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/ > > I am currently running Xquartz v2.7.4 (xorg-server 1.13.0). > > (I am unsure whether or not Lion, OS X 10.7.x, still have Apple > supplied Xterm programs.) > > Further, make sure that you have a working set of compilers. The ones > that you need will be the Apple version of gcc and g++, found in > /usr/bin: > > %> /usr/bin/gcc --version > i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build > 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00) > Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR > PURPOSE. > > %> /usr/bin/g++ --version > i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-g++-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build > 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00) > Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR > PURPOSE. > > For Fortran, I have been using the Lion/Mountain Lion compatible > gfortran 4.7 version obtained from Sourceforge: > > http://hpc.sourceforge.net/ > > specifically, > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hpc/gfortran-4.7-bin.tar.gz?download > which I have installed in /usr/local/bin: > > %> /usr/local/bin/gfortran --version > GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.7.1 > Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > GNU Fortran comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > You may redistribute copies of GNU Fortran > under the terms of the GNU General Public License. > For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING > > With those preliminaries out of the way, you can now begin to build > XSPEC, S-lang, and ISIS. > > %%%%%% > > 1. Download the XSPEC source code from: > > http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/download.html > > On this web page under "STEP 1- Select the type of software:" choose > "Source code distribution". Then, underneath "STEP 2 - Download the > desired packages:", select *only* Xspec. Do not choose any other > packages. > > Then click "Submit". > > This will create a gzipped tar file on your machine with a name, e.g., > "heasoft-6.14src.tar.gz". > > %%%%%% > > 2. Move and unpack this tar file into a directory. On my laptop, I > build in directories only accessible to the root account, so I first > switch into the root account (%> sudo su), and then I switch to using > the csh (%> csh). The software can just as easily be built in a bash > shell. Usually this means replacing "%> setenv CC /usr/bin/gcc" with > "%> export CC=/usr/bin/gcc" in the instructions below. > > *** WARNING: If you do build as root in the /usr/local directory, be > be very careful, especially when unpacking and deleting files. For > example, I often add the -i option when deleting, e.g., %> rm -i > heasoft-6.14src.tar.gz, when working in the root directory. I try to > stay away from using the wild card, *, in any commands, etc. You can > build this software in other directories, usually by adding paths to > the ./configure options below. Running the command %>./configure > --help will show you what options are available. *** > > For my set up, I have unpacked the software into a directory: > > /usr/local/xspec_only > > E.g., > > %> cd /usr/local/xspec_only > %> mv /Users/mnowak/Desktop/heasoft-6.14src.tar.gz . > %> tar zxvf heasoft-6.14src.tar.gz > > You can, of course, unpack the software into any directory you wish. > > %%%%%% > > 3. Remove the heagen package - it cannot be built 64-bit. > > %> cd /usr/local/xspec_only/heasoft-6.14 > %> rm -Rf heagen > > *** If you accidentally leave this library in the distribution, you > will automatically build a 32-bit version of the library. This will > cause problems with ISIS and with some XSPEC "local models". See the > warning in step 5 below. *** > > %%%%%% > > 4. Explicitly set the compilers that you will use for the build. In > this case, these are the Apple gcc & c++, and the sourceforge gfortran > v4.7.1. (Contrary to what it says on the XSPEC page, I have had > little luck with any versions of g95, and I have not tried compilers > from Macports, nor have I extensively tried gfortran v4.8.) > > %> setenv CC /usr/bin/gcc > %> setenv CXX /usr/bin/g++ > %> setenv FC /usr/local/bin/gfortran > > %%%%%% > > 5. Move to the BUILD_DIR directory: > > %> cd /usr/local/xspec_only/heasoft-6.14/BUILD_DIR > > and then build XSPEC via the instructions outlined below. Note that > you have to explicitly identify the paths to the X11 libraries. Each > step below may take a while to run. *** Be sure that the previous > command has finished before starting the next command. *** (To see if > a command has finished, type, for example, "%> tail build.log". You > should see a statement saying "Finished" if the command has > successfully completed.) > > %> ./configure --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib --x-includes=/usr/X11/include > >& config.out & > %> make >& build.log & > %> make install >& install.log & > > The above build should have automatically occurred in 64-bit, and > should have been placed in a directory such as: > > /usr/local/xspec_only/heasoft-6.14/x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0 > > If you see "i386" anywhere in that path name, something has gone wrong > and you have accidentally built a 32-bit version of the library! (The > name of the created directory might be slightly different on your > machine, but should have x86_64 as part of it, *not* i386) > > %%%%%% > > 6. We are now going to make use of some of the libraries that we just > built in this version of XSPEC, so set up an environment variable > pointing to this build (CHECK FOR THE NAME OF THE PATH ON YOUR > SPECIFIC MACHINE): > > %> setenv HEADAS > /usr/local/xspec_only/heasoft-6.14/x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0 > > %%%%%% > > 7. Now we build S-lang. The source code can be obtained from > > http://jedsoft.org/slang/ > > The current version is 2.2.4 (do *not* get any "pre-release" version), > which on my machine I have unpacked into the directory: > > /usr/local/slang-2.2.4 > > Changing to that directory, we first run a configure script, using > readline from the XSPEC build, and making sure to explicitly point to > the X11 libraries. (I am also building without a number of libraries > that are not necessary for use in ISIS. A number of these are very > useful libraries for more advanced scripting using S-lang.) We then > build and install the S-lang library. > > %> cd /usr/local/slang-2.2.4 > %> ./configure --without-pcre --without-png --without-z --without-iconv > --with-readline=$HEADAS --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib > --x-includes=/usr/X11/include > %> make > %> make install > %> make clean > > %%%%%% > > 8. Now we install ISIS. The current version, 1.6.2-26, can be found > here: > > http://space.mit.edu/ASC/ISIS/download.html > > (ISIS is updated frequently, so don't worry if it's several sub-minor > versions greater than -26 when you download it. Such minor > sub-versions are usually small enhancements to the functionality, or > very minor bug fixes. Nothing should change that affects the build > properties.) On my machine, I have unpacked the program into the > directory: > > /usr/local/isis-1.6.2-26 > > The build is very similar to the S-lang build in that we have to make > sure we explicitly point to the X11 libraries, and use the readline, > PGPLOT, and CFITSIO libraries found in the XSPEC build. > > %> cd /usr/local/isis-1.6.2-26 > %> ./configure --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib --x-includes=/usr/X11/include > --with-readline=$HEADAS --with-headas=$HEADAS > %> make > %> make install > %> make clean > > And you're done! You should now have a working, 64 bit version of > both XSPEC and ISIS. The ISIS executable will be in /usr/local/bin, > while XSPEC can be added to your path via: > > %> setenv HEADAS > /usr/local/xspec_only/heasoft-6.14/x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0 > %> source $HEADAS/headas-init.csh > > %%%%%% > > 9. In order to get the rest of HEASOFT setup on your Apple laptop, you > must create a separate installation *using 32-bit flags* on the > compilers. > > Again, go to the HEASOFT download web site: > > http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/download.html > > and this time download the *entire* HEASOFT package by clicking "all". > This will again give you a gzipped tar file: heasoft-6.14src.tar.gz > > In this case, I have moved the package to the /usr/local directory, and > have built it in /usr/local/heasoft-6.14 > > %> cd /usr/local/ > %> mv /Users/mnowak/Desktop/heasoft-6.14src.tar.gz . > %> tar zxvf heasoft-6.14src.tar.gz > %> cd /usr/local/heasoft-6.14/BUILD_DIR > > The compilers have to be set to explicitly use their 32-bit modes: > > %> setenv CC "/usr/bin/gcc -m32" > %> setenv CXX "/usr/bin/g++ -m32" > %> setenv FC "/usr/local/bin/gfortran -m32" > > The build then proceeds as normal: > > %> ./configure --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib --x-includes=/usr/X11/include > >& config_32bit.out & > %> make >& build_32bit.log & > %> make install >& install_32bit.log & > > The above build should have been placed in a directory such as: > > /usr/local/heasoft-6.14/i386-apple-darwin12.4.0 > > This 32-bit version of HEASOFT can now be placed into your path by: > > %> setenv HEADAS /usr/local/heasoft-6.14/i386-apple-darwin12.4.0 > %> source $HEADAS/headas-init.csh > > %%%%%% > > 10. Getting help: If you run into any problems installing ISIS, > please send an e-mail to the ISIS users mail group: > > isis-users_at_email.domain.hidden> > Please give as much detail as possible about how you attempted to > build the code, and please include copies of your > /usr/local/isis-1.6.2-26/config.log and > /usr/local/isis/-1.6.2-26/config.status files. > > > > -- Meš Bestu Kvešju Mette ---- You received this message because you are subscribed to the isis-users list. To unsubscribe, send a message to isis-users-request_at_email.domain.hiddenwith the first line of the message as: unsubscribe
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