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stephen
 03/18/2008 12:55PM (Read 4389 times)  
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What's the status of freebsd as a platform for iraf? I see it was supported by v2.12, but there's no reference to it that I can find in anything v2.14. I haven't found any reference to it being dropped as a platform either, so I'm not sure what to make of the situation. Thanks in advance.

 
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fitz
 03/18/2008 12:55PM  
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FreeBSD is part of the PC-IRAF systems but just hasn't been built for distribution yet due to a lack of available systems. The SunOS/Solaris sparc port is complete and will cause a v2.14.1 release that will also include FreeBSD binaries. There's no particular hurry for this but people are starting to ask, so look for it in the next month or so.Cheers,
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 03/18/2008 12:55PM  
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[quote:dc0dfedb05]The SunOS/Solaris sparc port is complete and will cause a v2.14.1 release...[/quote:dc0dfedb05]That's good news! It will be useful to have 2.14 on SPARC.Thanks,James.

 
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ericdelacruz
 07/26/2014 10:20PM  
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Hi, am new in this forum I have been using FreeBSD for a while.....since 1994.

Just wanted to know if there is an iraf port for the current freebsd platform? freebsd 9.X or freebsd 10.x.

thanks in advance for your time on this.

Greetings from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, The Maya land!


 
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fitz
 08/01/2014 06:41AM  
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FreeBSD is unofficially no longer supported due to lack of interest (the last official release was in the v2.14 series), however it is/was built using the common PC-IRAF tree and so a release is still technically possible. It only took a few hours to resurrect the system and compile the latest IRAF v2.16.1 release on a FreeBSD 9.3 32-bit system which I've put up at

ftp://iraf.noao.edu/pub/fitz/iraf.fbsd,x86.tar.gz

Use this as the download file and follow the normal v2.16.1 installation/README instructions.

Note the biggest change required related to the fact that IRAF now uses 'bash' scripts whereas FreeBSD doesn't use/install bash by default and the /bin/sh is the origin BSD shell and not entirely compatible with bash. So, key scripts were changed to run with /usr/local/bin/bash which AFAIK is where the OS will install bash as an add-on.

Also, this is only the core system: It should be enough to compile external packages however I didn't build all the external packages so that the simplified installer will declare these and thus you will need to do all extpkgs manually. Note that packages like STSDAS/TABLES can no longer be built from source and FreeBSD isn't supported by the developers so won't be available. 64-bit binaries are a possibility however I don't have ready access to a machine so building binaries is non-trivial. Hope this helps.

 
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