Miriad on MacOSX -- installation comments

Other related links

• On older set of hints from Rao's miriad/mac page, but here are some additional hints from my own boxes (but keep in mind: not all Mac's are equal, you need to know the feline and perhaps the endianism now).
• my NEMO/mac notes: nemo/Mac notes and for NEMO on nemo/MacOS 10.4 notes .
• And here are some recent SMA notes regarding MacOS 10.4 (tiger)
• Jeff Mangum keeps some miriad hints on his wiki page
• OS X for Astronomers: Setting up your Apple computer for professional astronomy
• My new macosx on intel notes. Feb 2007.

Possible patches to watch out for:

1. Modify $MIRLIB/Makefile and make sure the slib: depends on nothing and does nothing. The latest version should depend on slib_mac.
2. on Kartik's 10.4 based laptop (no more fink, make sure /usr/local/bin in path) we found that the saveFP/restFP linking problem is removed by adding -lcc_dynamic (sep 2005). However, a year later, -lSystemStubs, was also needed for him. Go mac!

   	setenv Flinklib  "-lmir -llinpack -lpgplot -lX11 -lcc_dynamic -lSystemStubs -lm"
   
   	setenv Clinklib  "-lmir -llinpack -lpgplot -lX11 -lf2c -lcc_dynamic -lSystemStubs -lm"
   
   to 
   	 $MIR/src/sys/bin/compile.darwin
   
   however, if your installation uses $MIR/bin/localsys/compile.darwin, you should change this file, not the
   src/sys/bin version !!!
   

   As per SMA instructions, you *may* have to make a symlink from /usr/lib/libcc_dynamic.a to the one in your /Developer tree !!!
3. wip is also broken, I fixed it by changing line 586 in borrow/wip/makewip:

   	set f77lib = ( $f77lib -lg2c  ) 
   to
   	set f77lib = ( $f77lib -lg2c -lcc_dynamic -lSystemStubs ) 
   

   After this, you can "mir.prog wip". This patch is now in CVS, but it might break for the next compiler change.

debugging cycle

     1:   mirboss					# makes you a miriad administrator (the boss)

     2:   emacs compile.darwin                          # but be sure to edit the correct one (see above)
     3:   mir.subs fitsio                               # compile a simple subroutine, ensure it works, on error, goto 2:
     4:   mir.prog itemize                              # compile a simple program, on error goto 2:
     5:   mir.prog uvplt                                # compile a graphics program, on error goto 2: