Astromake MIRIAD

External reference: miriad
Known bugs

Upgrade reminders:

If you modify you local source of miriad (e.g. increase some buffer sizeas in $MIRINC/maxdim.h and/or $MIRINC/maxdimc.h) you will most likely need to do the following to get a new system:

    mirboss                  (the alias to make you a miriad boss)
    mir.install subs prog   (recompile library and programs)
    cd $MIRLIB; make slib   (rebuild the shared library)

Upcoming Release(s)

Partially a wish-list, here are some things being worked on and/or coming out in the next release:

MIRIAD is now under CVS control.
Candidate release 00nov21 is now available
28-aug-00: fixed xmrecvlist compilation for linux
Candidate release 00aug11 is now available.
10-aug-00: uvwide re-computes wides wrong if different size spectral windows present, also added kdoc files to
Candidate release 00aug04 is now available from anon.ftp. It was built on redhat6.2, and also comes with a pre-compiled PGPLOT.
inclusion of all BIMASONG patches (BSS)
g* routines still patched manually, as well as mossdi2 and mselfcal.
Corel (debian based) needs to be recompiled by replaceing -ltermcap with -lncurses. Otherwise 'miriad' and 'wip' will not run. Edit the files: borrow/wip/makewip and src/sys/bin/stub.tools

Release 00feb10

This is now being built on Mandrake6.0, which is compatible with Redhat6.0 and SuSe 6.x. Note this binary release will *not* work with redhat5.2 without either patching your distribution or recompiling miriad.

29-aug-99: fixed bug in reading miriad mask files in WIP under linux
WIP is now also available as a debian package. Within astromake we now plan to extract a separate WIP binary release.
implot: new mosaic pattern options
new version of gfiddle/gapply that allow batch mode and fix missing antenna problems
(2-aug-99) new version of mir.bench with command line options
(5-aug-99) fixed limits in selfcal, mselfcal, uvio.c, key.c, keyf.for for large mosaicing scripts for the SONG people.
merge in some minor WIP changes that never made it into the archive

Release 99aug02

(5-aug-99) fixed limits in selfcal, mselfcal, uvio.c, key.c, keyf.for for large mosaicing scripts for the SONG people.
(1-aug-99) uvflag fixed for large (>40) antennas
(29-jul-99) full support for SH-based shells.
(27-jul-99) system makefile (the one used with mirmake) will now remake a shared library using "mirmake slib"

Release 99jul26

Fixed a nasty bug in in obspar, which caused many UV based programs to fail with a buffer overflow message.
Various "undocumented" minor changes
The directory $MIR/local/install now contains all the not-yet-official linux/UMD patches, and the script install.linux shows you how you can build your own versions (it is actually as easy as typing "install.linux".
Every install now includes and checks basic running of the release by running the script mir.test, and compares the output with a baseline version. See $MIR/local/install/mir.test
Although miriad is still compiled for redhat5.2, you can do development under redhat6.0 by building a 6.0 native library (since the fortran compiler has changed significantly). You will see the following error message:
```
                "error in loaded ...... /libmir.so: undefined symbol: xargc"

    set path=($MIR/src/sys/bin $path)
    cd $MIRLIB
    mir.install subs
    # special for linux:::
    ar dv libmir.a iscoords.o
    ld -shared -o libmir.so --whole-archive libmir.a
    mir.install prog
```
the first three steps are the normal way to make a new library, making shared libraries is not standard miriad, so the 2 ar/ld steps are somewhat specific to the current version and may change over time, in particular the need to delete iscoords.o should disappear.

Release 99jul14

This release works fine on redhat5.2, but does not alow development on redhat6.0 since the fortran library now requires libg2c, instead of libf2c. To run the binary release on redhat6.0, you need to have the compat* libraries installed.

(4-may-99) one more bug in uvamp fixed
(27-apr-99) fixed bugs to imlist, pcsub and mathd. they either coredump or produce erroneous results.
(12-apr-99) xcorf is now compiled and included; you need lesstiff (a motif1.2 OSS/clone) installed (both lesstif-current-* and lesstif-current-devel-*)

Release 99apr01

Although compiled on a standard RedHat 5.2 box, it seems to work fine on Debian 2.0 and Slackware 3.6 (you need the glibc shared libs which come with sw36, so some older versions of sw won't work unless you install those). I installed the PGPLOT rpm's as available through astromake both on RH52 and SW36.

New things in this version of miriad:

- support for csh/tcsh as well as sh (bash) users.
- some "umd" additions (mir.man, mirsao, mirtng, mirlibs, mirmake) are now included
- fixed various program to now compile under linux picky g77 compiler 

However:

- you need to have pgplot installed already. Astromake has an rpm
  that you can install for most systems (seems to work on debian,
  slackware 3.6 and of course redhat)

- some installations of redhat appear not to have symlinks from the .so file to
  the .so.N file. This will affect you if you need to recompile programs or
  want to develop programs: To fix that, do the following (as root):

  ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so
  ln -s /usr/lib/libpgplot.so.5 /usr/lib/libpgplot.so
  ldconfig

  I believe this happens if you have not installed the "development"
  versions of these packages. You can also install the appropriate packages
  of course.

Last updated: 25-jan-01