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Comment on PGPLOT on Snow Leopard by Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:01:11 +0000

Step 4d terminates in an error. I get several ranlib errors such as the following ar: creating archive libpgplot.a ranlib: archive member: libpgplot.a(grdate.o) cputype (16777223) does not match previous archive members cputype (7) (all members must match) Any ideas?

Comment on PGPLOT on Snow Leopard by Jack

Jack — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:47:15 +0000

FOLLOW UP{ The GRGENV.F file in sys_mac was a problem. The one in sys was a better start for my MAC. Need to confirm, but it seems to be working Still have a conflict with an intrinsic c function called strncpy; Number of args is different. In a number of routines (ie grdate.c, grtermio.c, grgmem.c, grfileio.c, gruser.c, the names were mangled. The functions need to have a trailing underscore, but the define statements were not setting the option for that. I have finally managed to run the first demo to output to gif files. However, the naming scheme for the 2nd and higher number files is such that the MAC does not recognize them as gif files. Renaming them works, but I need to find in the source code where the default names are created so I can avoid this step in the future. A quick point in the right direction would save some time. Also, I have not been able to generate interactive output. I guess that will be the hurdle for tomorrow unless somebody has a tip.

Comment on PGPLOT on Snow Leopard by Jack

Jack — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:41:07 +0000

At step 4d I run into a errors with GRGENV.F and GRTERMIO.C. I've copied the info here. I made a couple of quick changes to GRGENV.F that allows it to compile. Basically, deleted the Readonly Attribute, replace * with a file name, and changed pause to write and read statements. I am new to the MAC OSX, which also means I am new to GFORTRAN, GCC, etc. (I've programmed in Fortran on IBM 360/370s, VAX, MSDOS, and a few others, but just got my first MAC and trying to come up to speed. Any suggestions as to what is causing these problems and how to fix them would be greatly appreciated. Jack jack {at} jriegel(.)com (ERRORS IN GRGENV.F - Appears that the compiler does not like Readonly; Some of the lines exceed the default line length; it doesn’t like the use of FILE=*; and, it doesn’t like pause statements ) gfortran -c /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys_mac/grgenv.f /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys_mac/grgenv.f:63.59: Open(Unit = lun,File=FilNam,Status='OLD',Err = 10,Readonly) 1 Error: Syntax error in OPEN statement at (1) /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys_mac/grgenv.f:67.66: 10 Open(Unit = lun,File='pgplotenvnames',Status='OLD',Err = 20,Readon 1 Error: Syntax error in OPEN statement at (1) /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys_mac/grgenv.f:74.18: 20 CALL GRWARN('Could not find file PGPLOTENVNAMES in current directo 1 Error: Unterminated character constant beginning at (1) /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys_mac/grgenv.f:75.18: CALL GRWARN('A dialog box will come up allowing you to find the fi 1 Error: Unterminated character constant beginning at (1) /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys_mac/grgenv.f:76.18: CALL GRWARN('environment variables. Hit return for the dialog box 1 Error: Unterminated character constant beginning at (1) /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys_mac/grgenv.f:77.72: Pause 1 Warning: Deleted feature: PAUSE statement at (1) /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys_mac/grgenv.f:78.20: Open(Unit=lun,File=*,STATUS='OLD',err=100,Readonly) 1 Error: Syntax error in OPEN statement at (1) make: *** [grgenv.o] Error 1 (ERRORS IN GRTERMIO.C - Appears that there is a conflict with and intrinsic c function called strncpy; Compiler doesn’t like something about the Record statement) gfortran -c /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys_mac/grsy00.f gcc -c -DPG_PPU -O2 -I. /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys/grtermio.c /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys/grtermio.c: In function ‘groter_’: /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys/grtermio.c:39: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strncpy’ gfortran -c /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys_mac/grtrml.f gfortran -c /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys/grtter.f gfortran -c /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys_mac/gruser.f /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys_mac/gruser.f:29.9: Record /StringHandle/ UserName 1 Error: Unclassifiable statement at (1) /usr/local/src/pgplot/sys_mac/gruser.f:32.6: STRING = UserName.h^.P^ 1 Error: Unclassifiable statement at (1) make: *** [gruser.o] Error 1

Comment on PGPLOT on Snow Leopard by Peter Jung

Peter Jung — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:34:08 +0000

The build went O.K., and the demos work O.K. with the xwindow drivers. The GIF drivers and many others result in segmentation faults. Who can help?

Comment on Snow Leopard for this Astronomer by admin

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:47:05 +0000

Hi Kartik. I am not sure what the problem is as I have my tcsh set without issue in Snow Leopard. However, I did upgrade from Leopard with these settings, so maybe this is a new Snow Leopard problem.

Your comment implies you did you make sure (either using chsh from the command line or the advanced Account settings available by control-clicking your account name in the Accounts preference pane) to point to /bin/tcsh and yet the setting seems to be getting lost.

I did find an article online about changing default shells in Snow Leopard on the Unofficial Apple Weblog (TAUW). The author also reported that the settings seemed to be getting lost, but they were trying to change the settings via a default shell in the terminal.app program. Their solution was to use chshor the advanced Account settings trick, so at this stage, I am out of suggestions.

It does occur to me that you may want to check and be sure your Terminal.app is not set to open to bash, instead of the "Default login shell" by checking the Preferences under the Terminal.app.

Comment on Snow Leopard for this Astronomer by Kartik Sheth

Kartik Sheth — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:07:42 +0000

I have a problem with my Snow Leopard installation I think. I can't get it to go to tcsh. I have tried chsh and it has the shell set to /bin/tcsh. I also checked it using the secret accounts advanced options - and there too it is set correctly. But when I open a new window, it always comes out in bash. Any suggestions on how to make it come up with tcsh? Thanks -Kartik

Comment on PGPLOT on Snow Leopard by Grappin

Grappin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:52:16 +0000

well, of course the solution is to copy libpgplot.dylib from /usr/local/pgplot to/usr/local/lib/libpgplot.dylib where pgplot expects to find it now pgplot works thanks again

Comment on PGPLOT on Snow Leopard by Grappin

Grappin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:33:43 +0000

Thanks for all these nice instructions - it almost works for me a) about the OS X addition. You write: sudo tar -C /usr/local/src/pgplot5.2_macosx_addition.tgz which is incomplete The following worked for me: sudo tar -C /usr/local/src/pgplot -xvf pgplot5.2_macosx_addition.tar b) I arrive up to point 4d included, everything seems ok However I cannot run any pgdemo file: sudo ./pgdemo2 dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libpgplot.dylib Referenced from: /usr/local/pgplot/./pgdemo2 Reason: image not found Trace/BPT trap What is wrong with libpgplot.dylib?

Comment on Activating SSH support in MacPorts PHP by hoursheads

hoursheads — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:53:37 +0000

certainly, the WordPress devs are going to have to write new code to accommodate phpseclib, but they had to do that, anyway, for the libssh2 PECL extension.

Comment on Scisoft OSX 2009.10.1 released by Juan

Juan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:05:01 +0000

I don't know if Nor reads this blog, but if you go to the original SciSoft OSX page, I believe he provides his email address there. You can contact him and see if he is amenable to the changes you suggest. Keep in mind, right now, python under SciSoft OSX may have issues as noted in this post.

Comment on Activating SSH support in MacPorts PHP by Juan

Juan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:03:05 +0000

Unfortunately, there does't appear to be an easy way to get WordPress understand phpseclib.

Comment on Activating SSH support in MacPorts PHP by hoursheads

hoursheads — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:16:44 +0000

the SSH2 PECL extension is crap. i'd been trying to get it to work for days without success until i found this: http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/ never did get the PECL extension to work but phpseclib's implementation works wonderfully! shame the wordpress devs don't support it...

Comment on Scisoft OSX 2009.10.1 released by Thomas Eisenbeiss

Thomas Eisenbeiss — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:23:48 +0000

Hello. I don't know if it is allowed to give wishes, what should be included in the scisoft package, but two major items, I would like to suggest, should be added. 1. SCAMP is missing. Scisoft contains SEXtractror as well as SWarp, but in particular SWwarp is useless without SCAMP, because SCAMP calculates the field distortion corrections, which SWarp uses to resample the frames while co-adding. 2. It would be nice tho have the midas interface fore python included: PyMidas. It should be easy to add. I have some experiance with the Linux version of Scisoft, so I might even be able to help, or test with future Versions omf Scisoft/Mac. Best regards Thomas

Comment on Activating SSH support in MacPorts PHP by Derak

Derak — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:50:34 +0000

Hey Juan, Any more info regarding this? Could the problem be because I am using the entrophy php5.2.5 rather that 5.3.0?

Comment on Scisoft OSX 2009.9.1 released by admin

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:46:40 +0000

Try the new Scisoft 2009.10.1, it isn't missing that particular Python package (it is shipped as a tarball).

Comment on Scisoft OSX 2009.9.1 released by Thomas Eisenbeiss

Thomas Eisenbeiss — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:36:19 +0000

Hello. I recently switched to MAC (i.e. bought a new one) I'm a research scientist on astrophysics and I nead python for some part of my work. Since I switched to MAC OS recently I have no older version of scisoft, i.e. can not copy the Python.app from the older version. can you maybe the files needed to get python run available for me. Thanks very much

Comment on Scisoft OSX Mirror by admin

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:23:42 +0000

All I can tell you is I am not a python user (I am interested, but it will have to wait for my next sabbatical, since I don't have time to dive into a new language these days), so I can't be terribly helpful. I do know Apple pre-installs a considerably newer installation of python that SciSoft, but I don't know if the newer installation is necessary to avoid the bus error (I can't imagine python was tweaked for snow leopard support, but who knows).

Comment on Scisoft OSX Mirror by Gordon Richards

Gordon Richards — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:07:45 +0000

Since you have gotten SciSoft 2009.9.1 to work on Snow Leopard, I wonder if you find that you can use pylab in python? I'm getting a bus error. I've asked Nor about it, but still haven't found a solution. It would be helpful to know if others are having the same problem or if it is just me. Here's the error:

[n1-18-223:~] gtr% which python
/Applications/scisoft//i386/bin/python
[n1-18-223:~] gtr% python
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, May 13 2009, 14:09:10) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5488)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import numpy
>>> import pylab
Bus error

Regards, Gordon Richards Drexel University

Comment on Activating SSH support in MacPorts PHP by Juan Cabanela

Juan Cabanela — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:14:17 +0000

This no longer works with MacPorts 1.8 and the new ports structure taken to support PHP 5.3.0. In essence, in the new ports structure used for PHP 5.3.0, all the extensions are supported as separate ports. This means trying to add an additional extension in a separate directory fails. Actually, it looks like the "php5-openssl" port MAY provide the necessary SSH support, but that may be because my old manually installed SSH support is still there. I'll see what I can figure out as time allows.

Comment on Activating SSH support in MacPorts PHP by Derak

Derak — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:46:22 +0000

I am having trouble with this. I am running php entropy (php5-5.2.5-6-beta) on Mac OSX Serve 10.5.8. And I successfully installed libssh2-1.1 and did a pecl -f ssh2 successfully. I go through all the steps without problem, but ssh2 is never activated. ssh2.so gets created and put into "/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/" and my php.ini file has: extension_dir = "/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/" extensions=ssh2.so Here is a php_info() page for everything on my server: http://studentdev.jour.unr.edu/derak/images/rlb/ ssh2 should be showing up in my "Registered PHP Streams" section, but it is not. Any ideas? I feel like I've tried everything here.