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Hi Mike!Hope things aren't too awful there (have heard various bits of news). Just dropping in to say that an install of 2.14.1 on OpenSuse 11.1 64bit seems to work just fine, as long as -m32 is added to the appropriate flags in hlib$mkpkg.inc (as you suggested in another post here).The only problem I found was ximtool (xmkmf was forcing the latest gcc, which uses a different approach to varargs), but it turned out that Paulina (my partner, who has just got a new computer, which is why I am back installing IRAF...) doesn't use it anyway, so I didn't try looking at that in any detail.Cheers + thanks,
Andrew

Hi Andrew,Good to hear from you again! Unless you've heard things we haven't (not impossible), I'd say things are generally improving (albeit at the usual glacial IRAF pace).Anyway, a proper 64-bit port is on my TODO list for the summer with the idea to get something out for testing by the ADASS in October. Part of this will also resolve the various Linux architectures into a single 'bin.linux', the SuSE arch has already been deprecated in v2.14.As for XImtool, the -m32 flag will also be required but I'll admit I've never tried to build it on a 64-bit system. The varargs stuff changes with the GCC versions and I doubt is related strictly to the 64-bit platform. Porting X11IRAF to be 64-bit compliant is a major undertaking, especially given the age of some of the code (not just the stuff we wrote, but the X libs as well). This is really only an issue for XImtool when you want to look at e.g. and entire DECam or WIYN ODI (One Degree Imager) focal plane and you're then looking at 4GB of RAM for a single 24-bit frame. There's also the issue of hundreds of file extensions to be managed with these data so I've been pushing the idea of a whole new display server. For now, I know there is a 'linux64' or somesuch binary of DS9 available.Anyway, hope things are going well for you. If you miss La Serena, I hear Gemini is looking for help...Cheers,
-Mike

Back again. All I've heard is the Chilean layoffs, really - nothing relevant to Tucson. It's good to hear IRAF support is continuing - I was getting a bit concerned as I tried to install things (at least here in Chile alternatives like IDL are too expensive to be popular).I couldn't find a gcc version (tried 4.3, 4.1, 3.4) that would compile the X11 stuff quickly (I agree it's a compiler thing and not 64/32bit related), so I tried grabbing the precompiled redhat and everything worked just fine (maybe I lucked out on having the right libs installed - by now I have a whole pile...).(Problem with working in La Serena was being away from home for weeks at a time, which wasn't really working out - currently working for a small company in the USA (from home, here in Santiago) doing random geology(!) related work (a lot of databases and web sites, but just got two more "meaty" enquiries crunching numbers - one MPI, the other CUDA (which would be tres cool!)).Anyway... Hi to the rest of the gang (though I gather Nelson is back here in Chile...), Andrew