On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote:
> 3. /star symbolic link dose appear to be needed for some of our
> applications, in particular demos and tests (gaia and ccdpack demos for
> example). I will be stating in sun212 that /star it is required and that the
> installation should be done to /star (unless there are major complaints). I
> will update the quick_install script to default to creating and installing
> to /star.
This is a longstanding bug bear for many users who are not based in the UK
(Canadian and Dutch JCMT users for example). I usually get questions each
semester asking me why packages don't run when systems are not installed
into /star. The main problems are tcl and perl. Unfortunately nobody
seems to take non-/star seriously. Note that the RPM solution
that Al and I wrote overcomes these problems.
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Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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