June 15, 2019

Grinder - IRAF install

Building 32 bit executables

To build some of the utilities needed for the oven, as well as the mirror package itself, we need some 32 bit libraries. Without them, trying to compile and link using "cc -m32" we will get messages like: 
fatal error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory
A lot of the 32 bit libraries get pulled in as part of the IRAF install, but not everything. 
su
dnf install glibc-devel.i686 libgcc.i686
We already had a 32 bit glibc, but not the devel stuff or libgcc, hence the message above.

Fonts so xgterm can look civilized

I place entries into the .Xdefaults file like the following. 
XGterm*title:          generic IRAF XGterm
XGterm*font:           10x20
XGterm*foreground:     white
XGterm*background:     black
After doing this, it complains that it cannot find the 10x20 font. So I need to install some more fonts. 
dnf install xorg-x11-fonts*
This does the trick and installs 16 fonts.

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