Re: [bug-gnuastro] Error from make in installing CFITSIO and WCSLIB

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Dear Krittapas,

Thank you very much for trying to install Gnuastro. Infact my own 
research is also on the high-z universe, so I hope we can find the cause 
of this problem sooner, and you can get to the exciting science.

Since these errors are in the dependencies of Gnuastro (not Gnuastro 
itself), the best place to ask them is the respective developers. In my 
experience, they are often very supportive and responsive, so it would 
be great if you could contact them about the problem in the respective 
library.

 - CFITSIO: Help desk at: address@hidden

 - WCSLIB:  Its author (Mark R. Calabretta) at address@hidden

The following additional information can help the developers of the 
respective library to answer/fix the issue faster:

 - The version of the library you are installing.

 - Your operating system (for example is it GNU/Linux? if so, what 
distribution?).

 - Since both problems are in the configuration step, sending the 
`config.log' file (that is created after you run `./configure') would 
also greatly help the developers find the source of the problem.

 - The full command you used to configure the library (including all 
the options).

I previously saw the CFITSIO error on a friend's Mac OS X. He was able 
to successfully configure and build CFITSIO by not using the two 
configure options suggested in the Gnuastro book: `--enable-sse2 
--enable-reentrant'. So he just ran:

   $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

But it would be great if you could get in touch with the CFITSIO 
developers so they can fix the problem permanently. Because with this 
configuration you won't have some optimizations and also you won't be 
able to read from one file on multiple CPU threads (mainly used in 
ImageCrop's catalog cropping feature, no other program in Gnuastro will 
be affected).

Unfortunately, I haven't seen this WCSLIB error before, so I can't 
comment on it. Once the solution to any of these problems are found and 
you succeed in installing CFITSIO and WCSLIB, it would be great if you 
could post them to this list for other users to benefit from it.

Cheers,
Mohammad

On 03/20/2017 04:09 PM, Chanchaiworawit,Krittapas wrote:
> Dear admin,
>
>             I am new to GNU astro.
> I and my collaborators try to get the program to work for improving our data of 
> high-z galaxies detection.
> I am installing the mandatory dependencies right now.
> The GNU Scientific Library was installed  just fine.
> However, I ran into errors from running make for CFITSIO and configure WCSLIB.
> Here are the error messages:
>
> [CFITSIO] during "make"
>
>
> drvrsmem.c:78:16: error: variable has incomplete type 'union semun'
>
>    union semun filler;
>
>                ^
>
> drvrsmem.c:78:10: note: forward declaration of 'union semun'
>
>    union semun filler;
>
>          ^
>
> drvrsmem.c:331:16: error: variable has incomplete type 'union semun'
>
>  { union semun su;
>
>                ^
>
> drvrsmem.c:331:10: note: forward declaration of 'union semun'
>
>  { union semun su;
>
>          ^
>
> drvrsmem.c:396:16: error: variable has incomplete type 'union semun'
>
>    union semun filler;
>
>                ^
>
> drvrsmem.c:396:10: note: forward declaration of 'union semun'
>
>    union semun filler;
>
>          ^
>
> 3 errors generated.
>
> make[1]: *** [drvrsmem.o] Error 1
>
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
>
> [WCSLIB] during "configure"
>
> configure: error: in `/Users/krc213/GNU_Astro/wcslib-5.16':
>
> configure: error: linking to Fortran libraries from C fails
>
>
> Please help.
> Thank you very much.
>
> Best Regards,
> Krittapas Chanchaiworawit
> Department of Astronomy
> University of Florida

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