20000209: building McIDAS-X under Digital Unix

>From: Dave Santek <address@hidden>
>Organization: Space Science & Engineering Center
>Keywords: 199907221406.IAA22360 McIDAS DEC Alpha

Dave,

I'm still home sick, so the prioitized list you are waiting for is on hold.

>We are working with TASC to try to identify why McIDAS fails using a
>particular graphics card.

I had been in contact with Randy Alliss about this some time ago.

>We have a loaner machine here (from Compaq), and have tried to build
>McIDAS with marginal success.

What is the revision of the OS?

>I remember you helped Randy Alliss earlier....and I forwarded those
>emails to Rod and we're still having problems.
>
>We are wondering about versions of f2c & gcc (and flags). Can you give
>Rod a little guidance in this area?

I used the DEC compilers to build McIDAS on our OSF/1 4.0D/E systems.

The revision of C that we have is:

DEC C V5.8-011 on Digital UNIX V4.0 (Rev. 1091)

Right off, I can't figure out what the version of Fortran is.

As far as compile flags, for C I use:

ccopts="-std -DFUNCPROTO=15 -ieee_with_inexact"

I include no special flags for Fortran.

I would be glad to help Rod out further (or at least try) if desired.

>thanx

Tom

From: Rod Runnheim <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 15:08:13 -0600
Subject: Re: DEC

Tom,

Here's what I have done:

Obtained and compiled the f2c libs and binaries
Obtained and compiled gcc (2.95.2)
Made the changes noted in your e-mails
compiled McIDAS

I think I'm missing some compiler settings (or possibly building gcc
is a bad idea?) since LWU List dumps some nasty data.  It can't even
handle printing the values in HEX notation -- that should be
impossible.  I'm guessing it's a sizing or alingment issue and was
hoping you had encountered something similar when you built on your DEC
machines.

Rod