Fix for Bus Errors in Macintel Binaries
November 23rd, 2006 by admin
Posting over at the IRAF.net Forums, Mike Fitzpatrick discusses the release of new Macintel binaries of IRAF and of external packages that fix a bus error. (Note the handy RSS based feed of IRAF.net forum posts in the left sidebar of this site.)
While work continues (slowly) on the final V2.13 release I’ve decided to update the macintel binaries in the download area that includes this bug fix. At the same time I’ve updated the external package directory with a more complete build set of binaries, and especially macintel binaries linked against the bug fix (e.g. even though you can get macintel STSDAS binaries in their latest release, the ones from this site will avoid the bus error problem).
There is no immediate need for every macintel system to update binaries, however if you experience a bus error using the V2.13b2 system I’d suggest you update the binaries before reporting an error. You do not need to update sources, simply reinstall the ib.macx.x86 and nb.macx.x86 distributions, and/or the ‘bin.macintel’ binaries for the package in question.
Of course, the few Intel .pkg installers I have made available use the old potential-bus-error prone binaries. So… I guess sometime I’ll update them to fix this, and subsequent Macintel binary .pkg installers will include the fix as well.
I have a plan to write some sort of script that automagically will create .pkg installers. Or least, partially automate the process. Certainly, some of the creation is rote and could be streamlined. I think there’s even a command line method of using package maker…
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