2009/6/19 Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]>:
> Thinking about things that need to be in place for the nanahope release in
> July. I can think of the following things that are being worked on or
> problematic:
>
> - vtk no longer builds on x86_64 Mac OSX because it keeps finding the
> native Tcl/Tk frameworks instead of
> finding the starlink tcl libraries. There are updates in the repository
> submodules that are not synced
> to the supermodule so I'm not sure whether this needs a local fix.
>
> [ 87%] Building CXX object
> Rendering/CMakeFiles/vtkRenderingTCL.dir/vtkRenderingTCLInit.o
> Linking CXX shared library ../bin/libvtkRenderingTCL.dylib
> ld warning: in
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks//tk.framework/tk,
> missing required architecture x86_64 in file
>
> - Norman may or may not come through with the autotools update but I'm
> thinking probably not in time for
> nanahope
>
> - on leopard the default build generates incorrect libtool files for the
> fortran section (it's an
> issue with -nostdlib). This may be a g95 vs gfortran linking issue or
> maybe a leopard vs tiger issue. I haven't
> tried building 32-bit with g95 on my leopard system.
>
> - Not sure if Brad is intending to do an automated perl build for this
> release using shipwright
> or whether he is going to build for all architectures manually.
>
> - SAMP support in GAIA
>
> - David's CUPID VO STC-S work seems to be ready.
Except cupid is still producing FITS tables rather than votables.
David
>
> - I think GAIA-VO needs more testing by people before the release. Can
> people try it and see whether
> it works for them?
>
> - Peter: Will GAIA visualisation of STC-S catalogues be ready at least in a
> demo mode? Or would you prefer to punt to August? I'd like to have some
> debugging time before you turn into a pumpkin.
>
> - Sam Hart has requested that we ship the linux builds with Java 1.6 so
> that he can begin the process
> of migrating the OT now that JSky requires v1.6.
>
> - Need to make sure the Nanahope release notes are updated (even for
> oracdr).
>
> In terms of architectures:
>
> CentOS5.3 32- and 64-bit
> OSX PPC Tiger
> x86_64 Leopard [gcc-4.2 / gfortran ]
> 32-bit intel Tiger
>
> Will this be the last Tiger release? It doesn't have to be if we can get a
> fully automated build working so that we can just "push the button" and tar
> up the result.
>
> What have I missed?
>
> --
> Tim Jenness
> Joint Astronomy Centre
>
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