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fattysmo
 08/14/2014 04:15PM (Read 2317 times)  
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Hello,
I am trying to do a new install of IRAF on OS X Mavericks 10.9.4. I'm running tcsh and in my .cshrc file have set:

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setenv iraf /iraf/iraf/
setenv IRAFARCH macintel


When I untar the IRAF 2.16.1 release in /iraf/iraf/, it reports an error at

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x pkg/images/tv/tvmark/mktools.x: (Empty error message)
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.


Not knowing what this means, I tried running

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sudo ./install --system


And it yells at me

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Error: Cannot determine platform architecture, quitting.
        : Try setting a $iraf or $IRAFARCH variable.


As I said, these are set in my .cshrc file, and I've also tried defining them at the prompt before running ./install, but to no avail. Can you give me insight into what my problem might be? Thank you!

 
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fitz
 08/14/2014 04:27PM  
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The error from untarring may indicate the tarball is corrupt or incomplete, you should double check that you downloaded in binary mode and get the file again if needed.

The install script is actually a Bash script and so won't pick up definitions from your .login/.cshrc. Since you're doing a system install anyway you can run the old C-shell installer by doing

% sudo $iraf/unix/hlib/install.csh

or else add the following to your .bashrc/.bashrc_profile

export iraf=/iraf/iraf/
export IRAFARCH=macintel


As to why it's not determining your architecture correctly, be sure that the "uname -m" command at the unix prompt returns x86_64 to indicate you're using a 64-bit machine, otherwise the appropriate architecture is 'macosx'.

 
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fattysmo
 08/14/2014 04:34PM  
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It evidently was corrupted. I downloaded it again and it worked properly this time around. I should have thought of that. Thank you for your help, and I apologize for the simple problem!

 
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