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As the feature story on the site says, the beta release of the Mac/Intel port is now available. This thread is meant mostly as a means for users to post bug reports or suggestions and for more detailed discussion than the story comments allow. It also has the benefit that interested users can request notification of updates to the topic.A back-port of this release to Mac/PPC is planned and will be announced here. All other updates to the files will be logged in the distribution README file or posted in this forum. [b:c8f91c3267]Please report any bugs or suggestions to this forum thread as soon as they are found[/b:c8f91c3267]. Only preliminary testing has been done, I'm counting on users to do the science task testing. Floating-point exceptions are now working again, and part of the holdup in the release was a last-minute problem found (finally fixed) in the SPP translation involving the use of multi-valued case statements. Either of these may trigger an error on an Intel machine that runs correctly under PPC, so please be as complete as possible (parameters, data, test-case using dev$pix, etc) when reporting bugs.Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the help of Steve Grandi in making this port possible, and the ongoing efforts of others at NOAO to provide a more permanent machine for use in supporting this platform.-Mike

[b:63c0bc497f]Update: (3/14/06)[/b:63c0bc497f] The back-port to the ppc went very easily and so I've updated the Beta distribution to include both x86/ppc binaries as well as the common source code.Aside from the various cruft and bug fixes that have accumulated since the last release, this version has the following significant changes for users:
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o ECL is now the default environment in response to the 'cl' command
o Floating point exception handling once again works under Tiger
o Mkpkg now supports the long-format filenames in archives which
means that it will compile only the changed files and not the entire
package
o ZPN projections are now a supported WCS
o Problems compiling SPP sources where an integer procedure is defined
and also declared as 'extern' within the file no longer produce an
error. (This is mostly just a problem for G5/Opteron 64-bit systems)
o Sources using <stdarg.h> now compile cleanly
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Detailed release notes will be available with the final distribution. As always, please report any problems.-Mike

Forwarded comments from LBT Dave:
[i:a4930269e8](3/19/06) Source distrubution updated with fix to hlib$cl.csh[/i:a4930269e8][quote:a4930269e8]Authored by: LBT_Dave on Friday, March 17 2006 @ 10:48 PM MST
The intel native binaries were posted one day after I installed the PPC version,
so I wiped the 'old' stuff and installed the Mac/Intel port of iraf. I only had
to make slight modifications to the standard install procedure, such as I did
not need the 'z' option in the tar commands (archives uncompressed on
download) and setenv is not the correct command under the bash shell my
system defaulted to using (use export under bash).In order to start iraf from within an xgterm I had to modify the shell script
/iraf/iraf/unix/hlib/cl.csh where the 'mach' environment variables are set for
Darwin. In both cases, the setenv commands include '='s that should not
be there. Both looked like simple typos. They are about 80 lines down
in the shell script. The two (non-consecutive) lines should read:setenv mach macintel
setenv mach macosxOther than that everything has worked well, but I have yet to do any real
reductions.Dave.[/quote:a4930269e8]