FIREHOSE installation instructions

I hit an error during the extraction step because XIDL wasn't properly compiled. I fixed this problem by following the instructions for installing XIDL found here: http://www.ucolick.org/~xavier/IDL/xidl_install.html.

Deleted.  Long story short, make sure you use absolute paths in your XIDL_ENV: 

XIDL_DIR=/Users/jrrigby1/Idl/xidl   NOT  XIDL_DIR=~/Idl/xidl

XIDL_DIR=_{/Idl/xidXIDL_DIR=}/Idl/xidl

Just had an xidl install problem.  When running bin/evilmake I ran into the following error:

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ld -bundle /usr/lib/bundle1.o -L/usr/lib  -L/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.0 -lc -lgcc -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -o /Users/kna003/Work/IDL/xidl//lib/libxmath.dylib arclincorr.o arrmedsigclip.o arrmedsclipwgt.o arrmedsigmask.o rectify.o vector_median.o rebin2dspec.o invert_arc.o x_gsmooth.o nrecipes.o nrutil.o
ld: library not found for -lgcc
make[1]: *** [/Users/kna003/Work/IDL/xidl//lib/libxmath.dylib] Error 1
ld -bundle /usr/lib/bundle1.o -L/usr/lib  -L/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.0 -lc -lgcc -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -o /Users/kna003/Work/IDL/xidl//lib/libxmath.dylib arclincorr.o arrmedsigclip.o arrmedsclipwgt.o arrmedsigmask.o rectify.o vector_median.o rebin2dspec.o invert_arc.o x_gsmooth.o nrecipes.o nrutil.o

ld: library not found for -lgcc

make[1]: *** [/Users/kna003/Work/IDL/xidl//lib/libxmath.dylib] Error 1

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I tracked the error down to how evilmake determine the idl arch.  Because my .idlstartup was being called (includes initialize and paths etc.), it was reading "executed .idlstartup" as the architecture.  Easily remedied by commenting out the line defining IDL_STARTUP in my .bashrc.

I had a problem compiling the idlutils on both a Macbook Air running Yosemite using HPC's gfortran 5.0.  The error I get is:

ld -bundle /usr/lib/bundle1.o -L/usr/lib -lc -lcc_dynamic -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -o /users/massey/idlstuff/xidl/lib/libdimage.dylib idl_dmedsmooth.o dmedsmooth.o dselip.o dfind.o idl_dsmooth.o dsmooth.o dsigma.o idl_dobjects_multi.o dobjects_multi.o 

ld: library not found for -lcc_dynamic

make[2]: *** [/users/massey/idlstuff/xidl/lib/libdimage.dylib] Error 1

I removed the idlutils and idlspec2d subroutines and reloaded them, now taking the most recent versions:

There's a small inconsistency in the instructions which caused a problem when I blindly followed them:

I'm having trouble installing xidl.  I see that idlutils, xidl, idlspec2d each have a different makefile (evilmake).  Should

 they all be the same?  I did have to make a change to the evilmake in /bin/idlutils 

to get it to compile (g77 is no longer available on macports so I forced it to use 

macports).

Does anyone know if these should be the same or should we use the different evilmake's?

I was unable to find xidl on the SVN site, but it is also available here: https://github.com/profxj/xidl

For me the svn export of idlutils and idlspec2d and the link to xidl did not work! I dont know if this is "as from date x" or just for me in particular, but I'll be posting the new links anyway:

The correct commands for me were:

svn export http://svn.sdss.org/public/repo/sdss/idlutils/tags/v5_4_20 idlutils    #for idlutils v5_4_20

and

svn export http://svn.sdss.org/public/repo/eboss/idlspec2d/tags/v5_4_30 idlspec2d      #for idlspec2d v5_4_30

and for xidl you could clone this github page (if git is not installed: sudo apt install git):

git clone https://github.com/profxj/xidl.git .

Futhermore I want to add, that for the compilation, you should add these lines to your .bashrc. To edit, use gedit ~/.bashrc. After adding the lines, use . ~/.bashrc to activate them. I don't know if it's necessary to also add these lines to ~/.bash_profile. After this step, evilmake all should work when triggered from the $IDLUTILS_DIR. Use cd $IDLUTILS_DIR to check if your paths are constructed correctly.

Necessary lines:

#for IDLUTILS

export IDL_PATH=+/usr/local/itt:$IDL_PATH                   # Should NOT be the usr directory in your ~ directory, so do: cd /usr  to get there. Just add the path to where idl is stored here.

export IDLUTILS_DIR=/somewhere/lib/idlutils              # somewhere = anywhere you like. Just make a directory in your ~ directory called 'lib' (as an example) and store idlutils and idlspec2d there!

export PATH=$IDLUTILS_DIR/bin:$PATH                      

export IDL_PATH=+$IDLUTILS_DIR/goddard/pro:$IDL_PATH

export IDL_PATH=+$IDLUTILS_DIR/pro:$IDL_PATH

export IDL_DIR=/usr/local/itt/idl706                               # MUST be the directory in which the external directory is located. This is necessary to find the export.h file!

#for IDLSPEC

export IDLSPEC2D_DIR=/somewhere/lib/idlspec2d

export PATH=$IDLSPEC2D_DIR/:$PATH

export IDL_PATH=+$IDLSPEC2D_DIR/:$IDL_PATH

#for FIREHOSE

export FIRE_DIR=$IDL_DIR/FIRE/

A note that I followed (basically) the instructions above to get the software – not sure what is wrong with the instructions on sdss.org about the SVN.

My additions to my .cshrc file look like this – I already had a fair bit of IDL stuff set up and I use a different shell – so I thought this might be useful:

setenv IDLUTILS_DIR "/Users/rachaelbeaton/IDL_TOOL/idlutils/"

setenv PATH "$IDLUTILS_DIR/bin:$PATH"

setenv IDL_PATH "$IDLUTILS_DIR/pro:$IDL_PATH"

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setenv IDLSPEC2D_DIR "/Users/rachaelbeaton/IDL_TOOL/idlspec2d"

setenv PATH "$IDLSPEC2D_DIR/:$PATH"

setenv IDL_PATH "$IDLSPEC2D_DIR/:$IDL_PATH"

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setenv FIRE_DIR "/Users/rachaelbeaton/IDL_TOOL/FIRE/" 

setenv IDL_DIR "/Applications/exelis/idl85/bin/idl"

Then i used these directions (http://www.ucolick.org/~xavier/IDL/xidl_install.log) – 

2) IDLUTILS 

cd idlutils
bin/evilmake clean   ; Won't work if you didn't set IDLUTILS_DIR
bin/evilmake 


3) IDLSPEC2D

cd idlspec2d
$IDLUTILS_DIR/bin/evilmake clean
$IDLUTILS_DIR/bin/evilmake 


4) XIDL

cd xidl
bin/evilmake clean
bin/evilmake 

And lastly, the instruction from above:

which brought up the GUI. 

On Mac OSX with relatively recent X11, there's some missing library stuff.  If you go to startup FIREHOSE and get the following:

Error: attempt to add non-widget child "dsm" to parent "idl" which supports only widgets

exit IDL and do the following (this required some googling!):

sudo mv /opt/X11/lib/libXt.6.dylib{,.bak}

sudo cp /opt/X11/lib{/flat_namespace,}/libXt.6.dylib

This has made everything work again.

Has anyone gotten the FIRE pipeline successfully installed under the Catalina OS on a Mac?  As you now, apple dropped support for 32-bit applications.  As far as I can tell, this is a complete show-stopper.  When I evilmake idlspec2 it no longer makes lib/libspec2d.so, only lib/libspec2d.dylib.   When I go to run a trace it attempts to load libspec2d.so, and so fails. I'm sure this won't be the only issue.  Any guidance would be appreciated.   Thanks!