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I've pushed the PAL fix. On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Peter W. Draper <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Tim Jenness wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Tim Lister <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Hi all, I have recently found myself building from git checkout on >> completely clean >> machines without any prior installs which could form traps for the >> unwary. I have >> found 2 problems in the instructions/dependencies which affect >> clean installs: >> >> 1) The README was recently changed to say (e.g for tcsh): >> e.g.: >> % setenv TEXINPUTS $STARLINK_DIR/share/latexsupport//: >> >> In a clean install, $STARLINK_DIR will not be defined, there are no >> instructions in >> the README to set $STARLINK_DIR nor is there any tree of installed >> files to point it >> to. >> >> I worked round this by doing (from in the root of the git checkout): >> setenv TEXINPUTS `pwd`/applications/latexsupport//: >> >> >> It's meant to say $STARLINK (since that's a build time environment >> variable). Saying that, I thought that it was no longer needed at all as >> the documentation build system now automatically sets it. >> > > That should really be STARCONF_DEFAULT_PREFIX not STARLINK. STARLINK is > used internally by the build system and is set by the STAR_DEFAULTS macro, > but should not be set externally. > > 2) The bootstrapping fails during the './configure -C' step in >> libext/pal with the >> following message: >> checking for eraCal2jd in -lerfa... no >> checking for iauCal2jd in -lsofa_c... no >> configure: error: Neither ERFA nor SOFA library located. Can not >> continue >> configure: error: ./configure failed for pal >> configure: error: ./configure failed for libext >> >> I think this indicates that either erfa or sofa should be built by >> the 'make >> configure-deps' step. I have got round this by manually going into >> thirdparty/sofa and >> doing a './bootstrap && ./configure && make && make install' series >> and then reran the >> top-level configure. >> >> >> This is because configure is assuming $STARLINK_DIR is set and if it's >> not set it assumes PAL is >> being configured outside of the build environment. I probably need to >> change that to use >> $STARCONF_DEFAULT_STARLINK. It used to look for $STARLINK but that broke >> builds outside of >> Starlink because the build system was always forcing it to be /star >> before the test could be done. >> > > Maybe that should also be STARCONF_DEFAULT_PREFIX, since you want the sofa > etc. that have just been built and installed, not one potentially from > another tree? > > > (The third, known issue is with the standard version of the Perl Tk >> module; any plans >> to uprev to the development version which seems to resolve the >> issue for several >> people?) >> >> >> That should be trivial to do by explicitly specifying the version in >> cpan.deps -- just need to >> remember to remove the tweak when the real version is released (and I >> wonder if the test skipping >> code will still work). >> >> >> I think it would be good to resolve these issues so that the "out >> of the box" >> experience is smoother for new players. >> >> >> Absolutely. >> >> -- >> Tim Jenness >> >> >> >> > -- > Peter W. Draper, http://astro.dur.ac.uk/~pdraper >