Bugs: Building CIAO from Source

Caveats

1. UI tools (peg, prism, taskmonitor, or chips) (15 Dec 2008)
   (FC4, CentOS)

2. 64 bit machine: if chips, transforms and crates fail to build (15 Dec 2008)

3. 64 bit machine: if sherpa fails to build (15 Dec 2008)

Caveats

1. UI tools (peg, prism, taskmonitor, or chips) (15 Dec 2008)
   (FC4, CentOS)

   When building from source on FC4, the ui tools (peg, prism, taskmonitor, or chips) may encounter gtk/pango/cairo dependency issues. This may be cleared up by adding the following two libraries to GTK_LIBS and GTKGL_LIBS in src/include/Makefile.cxc:

   -lpng -lpangoft2-1.0
   

   When building on CentOS it has been observed that following libaries need to be added to GTK_LIBS and GTKGL_LIBS:

   -lexpat -lpng -lpangoft2-1.0
   

2. 64 bit machine: if chips, transforms and crates fail to build (15 Dec 2008)

   When performing a 32 bit build on a 64 bit machine, the chips, transforms and crates directories may fail to build. After running the configure command, the file src/include/Makefile.cxc needs to be updated to add the following two macro definitions which are necessary to compile the transforms, crates, and chips python modules:

   CCFLAGS = -m32
   FFLAGS = -m32
   

3. 64 bit machine: if sherpa fails to build (15 Dec 2008)

   When performing a 32 bit build on a 64 bit machine, if sherpa fails to build with errors such as:

   <...>/ots/include g2c_library_dir=/usr/lib ./ build
   Could not locate executable /usr/bin/gfortran -m32
   Found executable /usr/bin/g77
   gnu: no Fortran 90 compiler found
   gnu: no Fortran 90 compiler found
   gnu: no Fortran 90 compiler found
   gnu: no Fortran 90 compiler found
   invalid command name './'
   make: *** [build] Error 1
   

   The problem is that G2C_LIB_DIR is currently getting set to multiple paths and the extra paths are being interpretted as commands. You can work around this by editing the src/pkg/sherpa/Makefile to change the line

   G2C_LIB_DIR=$(patsubst %/bin/,%/lib,$(dir $(F95)))
   

   to

   ## G2C_LIB_DIR=$(patsubst %/bin/,%/lib,$(dir $(F95)))
   G2C_LIB_DIR=/usr/lib
   

   where G2C_LIB_DIR is set to the first value specified after g2c_library_dir in the build line containing "g2c_library_dir=<paths> build".