Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:14:22 +0100 (MET) From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.ORG> To: mph@astro.caltech.edu Cc: charon@freethought.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRAF Message-ID: <199902082214.XAA25599@qix> In-Reply-To: <19990208090627.D38029@wopr.caltech.edu> (message from Matthew Hunt on Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:06:27 -0800)
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>>>>> Matthew Hunt writes: > On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:31:25PM -0800, charon@freethought.org wrote: >> Might I suggest that someone look into porting IRAF (an astronomy utility >> for image analysis, etc.) to FreeBSD? The IRAF website >> <http://iraf.noao.edu>; has a FreeBSD version of the program, but it's not >> in the ports collection. Sorry, I would try to make the port myself if I >> had half a clue what I was doing! Maybe I'll get around to it in a few >> years ;) > I have looked into this. It appears fairly non-trivial, and my > impression from their documentation is that the installation will > vary more from site to site than it does for most software. hmmm. I had a port of the previous version, and it was complex because I started from the solaris sources (at this time FreeBSD was not supported). If you read carefully the documentation, making a port for a supported system is not that difficult. However, last time I looked in the ftp site, not all sources were available. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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