From fa080de7afc95aa1c19a6e6fc0e0708ced2eadc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joseph Hunkeler Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 20:46:52 -0400 Subject: Initial commit --- doc/notes.v215 | 602 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 602 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/notes.v215 (limited to 'doc/notes.v215') diff --git a/doc/notes.v215 b/doc/notes.v215 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a92fdfc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/notes.v215 @@ -0,0 +1,602 @@ +System Notes File for IRAF Version 2.15. +Begun with V2.15 code freeze 22 Nov 2010. +------------------------------------------- + +unix/hlib/install + Fixed an old bug when creating the imtoolrc link in cases where the + system doesn't already have a /usr/local directory (11/23/10) + +unix/hlib/extpkg.cl + Changed the test used to define an external package to check for + either a ".installed" file (e.g. when using the makefile) or a + package .cl script (e.g. when pointing a symlink) (11/23/10) + +New distribution files cut..... +------------------------------- + +unix/hlib/irafuser.csh +unix/hlib/irafarch.csh + On 32-bit mac systems the arch wasn't being properly detected (11/24/10) + +New distribution files cut..... +------------------------------- + +util/pkginst +util/pkginit +util/pkgclean +util/pkgupdate + Updates to allow IRAFARCH to specify the architecture to be installed. + Also modified to update script to automatically update all currently + installed architectures regardless of IRAFARCH (11/30/10) + +unix/hlib/install + Added a fix to the '-m' flag + +sys/libc/cimdrcur.c + The 'wcs' field was not properly converted from int to/from XINT in + the interface, causing the value to always be returned as 0 on 64-bit + platforms (12/6/10) + +pkg/ecl/mkpkg + Changed the -ltermcap to -lncurses to use the newer form of this library + and eliminate problems with users having to manually created links to + satisfy the shared libs (12/6/10) + +pkg/ecl/mkpkg + Added changes needed for FreeBSD port. (12/23/10) + +unix/boot/spp/xc.c + Added changes needed for FreeBSD port. (12/23/10) + +unix/hlib/mkpkg.inc +unix/hlib/irafuser.csh + Added changes needed for FreeBSD port. (12/23/10) + +util/pkgget +util/mksrc +util/mkclean +util/mkbindist + An ERRMSG alias was being used but not defined (12/30/10) + +unix/hlib/irafarch.csh + Added 'power macintosh' as a valid uname value for 10.4 PPC systems. + (12/31/10) + +unix/hlib/irafarch.csh + The uname cmd for Solaris had an extra '|' pipe definition (1/3/11) + +unix/boot/spp/xc.c + The fork() procedure was declared as type int instead of pid_t (1/3/11) + +lib/libimc.a -> ../bin/libimc.a + +pkg/images/immatch/src/imcombine/src/generic/mkpkg +pkg/images/immatch/src/imcombine/src/mkpkg +pkg/images/immatch/src/imcombine/mkpkg +pkg/images/mkpkg + Converted the generic combining code into a core library so that + other versions of combine (such as in ccdred, mscred, nfextern) + will share the same code rather than have copies. (1/4/11, Valdes) + +pkg/tbtables/Revisions+ +tbhanp.x +tbhpnp.x +tbttyp.x + A couple of trivial changes (see the Revisions file) and: + 1. Changes to better control the types and extensions. The accepted + extensions are |tab|fits|fit|fxb|txt|dat|cat|tmp|. + 2. If no extensions is given the default is now text instead of STSDAS + table. + (1/7/11, Valdes) + +unix/hlib/extpkg.cl + Fixed a typo where 'dp' was defined instead of 'dpkg' (1/14/11) + +sys/vops/mkpkg + Forced the generation of the ACHT code when compiling the VOPS lib. + These routines are doubly-generic but allow for in-place conversion, + however there is a difference in the relative datatype size on 32- + and 64-bit system (e.g. real and int are the same on 32-bit, int is + larger on 64-bit) which causes the loop indexing to be different. + By forcing the regeneration of the code on each system we ensure that + during a sysgen the code appropriate for the platform will be used. + (1/18/11) + +unix/os/zzdbg.c + +unix/os/zzstrt.c + Moved all the (undocumented) debug print functions from the zzstrt.c + code into a separate zzdbg.c simply to collect them. These routines + can be used to debug low-level VOS routines but aren't generally used + outside of a port situation (1/18/11) + +sys/osb/mkpkg +sys/osb/ieee.gx +sys/osb/iand32.c + + IEEE NaN masking was being done using only a 32-bit mask. On 64-bit + systems this would lead to the interpretation of a double-precision + exponent as always being zero. This meant that all TY_DOUBLE FITS + files on 64-bit systems would appear to contain only zero pixels. (1/18/11) + +sys/imio/imfls.gx + Data types needed to be converted on 64-bit systems even when the types + are the same due to the need to pack/unpack int pixels (assumed to be + 32-bit values) (1/18/11) + +sys/imio/impak.gx +sys/imio/imupk.gx + Earlier 64-bit mods to these routines were attempts to work around the + in-place conversion bug discovered above. In impak.gx it is still nec- + essary to pack int/long into 32-bit values written to the file (1/18/11) + +pkg/images/imutil/src/nhedit.x + The comfile parameter check was modified to allow the "NULL" string as + an option to indicate no comfile was present (standard use is the null + string "", as was done when the task was first imported to the core + system). More time has been spent whining about this supposed + 'incompatability' than would have taken to resolve it but this change + should work for users even if the external package version of the + task is not available. I don't expect the whining will ever stop, + though. (1/18/11) + +unix/os/zgcmdl.c + Changed declaration of 'environ' to quiet warning messages. (1/19/11) + +pkg/ecl/readline/mkpkg + Changed the execution of the configure cmd to explicityly use "./" (1/20/11) + +sys/fmtio/evexpr.y +sys/fmtio/evvexpr.gy + A typo meant that the GT token precedence was set twice (1/24/11) + +Makefile + Added a 'self_update' target to allow future updates (1/25/11) + +.version + Added a file with a simple version string for use in scripts (1/25/11) + +util/pkgget +util/pkginit +util/pkgclean +util/pkgconfig + Minor error-code checks (1/25/11) + +pkg/cl/cl.par +pkg/ecl/cl.par +unix/hlib/motd +unix/hlib/install +unix/hlib/login.cl +unix/hlib/irafarch.csh +unix/hlib/zzsetenv.def + Updated to v2.15.1 (1/25/11) + +pkg/utilities/nttools/stxtools/vexcompile.y + Added declaration of vex_gettok() to source grammar. (1/25/11) + +sys/fmtio/evexpr.y +sys/fmtio/evvexpr.gy +pkg/tbtables/selector/trsopen.y +noao/digiphot/photcal/parser/parser.y +pkg/utilities/nttools/tunits/parseunits.y +pkg/utilities/nttools/stxtools/vexcompile.y + Touched the file mod time to force regeneration of parsers. (1/25/11) + +unix/boot/xyacc/files - +unix/boot/xyacc/dextern - +unix/boot/xyacc/yaccnews - +unix/boot/xyacc/yaccdiffs - +unix/boot/xyacc/dextern.h + +unix/boot/xyacc/y[1234].c + +unix/boot/xyacc/cddllicense.txt + +unix/boot/xyacc/README + Replaced XYACC code with a version built from the OpenSolaris project + and distributed under the free 'Common Development and Distribution + License' (CDDL). Except for minor line number changes in the generated + parser, the production tables and variables used are identical to the + earlier XYACC. This version of XYACC is now free of license restrictions + other than those required by the CDDL. The README file has been updated + to reflect these changes. Total effort for the project was 1 day. (1/25/11) + +pkg/images/imutil/src/imexpr.gx + A use of Memr in the struct was not declared with P2R in the generic code. + (1/25/11) + +pkg/images/imutil/src/imexpr.gx + Modified the behavior of the task so that when a scalar expression is + used, all pixels are set to that value. Previously, only the first pixel + was set with the remainder of the image undefined. (1/25/11) + + +------------------------------------------------------ +System Frozen for V2.15.1 Patch (1/25/11) +------------------------------------------------------ + +unix/gdev/sgidev/sgi2uapl.c +unix/gdev/sgidev/sgi2ueps.c + Declaration of the timestamp variable was failing on 64-bit system (2/4/11) + +sys/mwcs/wftnx.x +sys/mwcs/wfzpx.x +sys/mwcs/wfzpn.x + The interative inversion method could runaway leading to an arithmetic + exception. Added a maximum change to each iteration to avoid this. + (2/18/11, Valdes) + +sys/osb/ieee.gx +sys/osb/ieeed.x +unix/osb/ieeer.x +unix/as.linux64/ieee.gx +unix/as.linux64/ieeed.x +unix/as.linux64/ieeer.x +unix/as.macintel/ieee.gx +unix/as.macintel/ieeed.x +unix/as.macintel/ieeer.x + The earlier update to fix the double-precision problem left a debug + value in the generic code that was never updated in the patch build. + This meant that zero pixels in FITS files were being interpreted as + 128 (the debug value). (2/17/11) + +pkg/dataio/fits/fits_rpixels.x +pkg/dataio/fits/fits_wpixels.x + Buffer sizes were being computed using SZ_INT instead of SZ_INT32 (2/18/11) + +sys/fmtio/evexpr.y +sys/fmtio/evexpr.x +sys/fmtio/evvexpr.gy +sys/fmtio/evvexpr.y +sys/fmtio/evvexpr.x + An earlier change to the token declarations had the strange effect of + changing the processing of string comparison. This effectively broke + tasks like HSELECT. Fell back to the earlier (and original) code until + this is better understood, however it doesn't appear to be releated to + the XYACC changes. (2/18/11) + +pkg/images/tv/imexamine/imexam.h + The coordinates arrays in the main structure were improperly indexed + with the P2R macro (2/10/11) + +.version +pkg/cl/cl.par +pkg/ecl/cl.par +unix/hlib/motd +unix/hlib/install +unix/hlib/login.cl +unix/hlib/irafarch.csh +unix/hlib/zzsetenv.def + Updated to v2.15.1a (2/21/11) + +------------------------------------------------------ +System Frozen for V2.15.1a Patch (2/21/11) +------------------------------------------------------ + +pkg/tbtables/fitsio/fttrnn.f + Disabled NaN checking for this function. It doesn't work properly on + 64-bit systems and NaN is seldom used anyway (2/22/11) + +sys/imio/imggsc.x + The pixels size indexing was incorrect in the case of e.g. 32-bit int + pixels and access as a real array. This was causing access to image + columns and higher dimensional data to get bogus values. (4/4/11) + +util/mkup + Added extra step to do the core "mkpkg update" (5/2/11) + +sys/etc/urlget.x + +sys/etc/zzdebug.x +sys/etc/mkpkg + Added a new url_get() procedure for downloading URLs to a named file. + Method signature is + + nread = url_get (char url[], char outname[], pointer reply) + + If a 'reply' pointer is supplied, the HTTP reply header is returned + as a string which must be allocated to at least SZ_LINE. (5/30/11) + +sys/imio/imt/ + + Added enhanced IMT expansion interface. See details in the + imio$imt/README file. (6/7/11) + +unix/hlib/libc/knames.h + Added definitions for imul32() and strsum() (6/17/11) + +sys/osb/imul32.c + Added code comments forgotten from the initial 64-bit port (6/17/11) + +sys/osb/mkpkg +sys/osb/strsum.c + Added a new strsum() procedure to return the 32-bit checksum of an + SPP string. This is used in e.g. generating the filenames for the + URL cache. (6/17/11) + +sys/fio/mkpkg +sys/fio/fcache.x + Implemented a proper URL cache mechanism for IRAF that provides + programmatic and application interfaces and can be shared with VOClient. + Cache names are generated from the filename/URI string (its checksum) + to map a URL to a local file resource, access is blocked until the + local resource becomes available for use. Names aren't guaranteed to + be unique but collisions should be rare and the mechanism allows URLs + to be dealt with easily at the application level. (6/21/11) + +unix/os/mkpkg +unix/os/zfrmdr.c + +unix/hlib/libc/knames.h +unix/hlib/libc/kproto.h + Added a new kernel routine to delete directories (6/21/11) + +sys/ki/mkpkg +sys/ki/ki.x +sys/ki/ki.h +sys/ki/kfrmdr.x + +unix/hlib/knet.h + Added KI routines to delete directories (6/21/11) + +lib/syserr.h +lib/syserrmsg + Added error messages for rmdir function (6/21/11) + +sys/fio/mkpkg +sys/fio/frmdir.x + Added VOS routine to delete directories. (6/21/11) + +sys/fio/open.x +sys/imio/immapz.x +pkg/tbtables/tbtopn.x + Modified file open to handle URLs. If the filename begins with "http" + the file is downloaded to the cache and the cached file is opened. (6/24/11) + +unix/hlib/login.cl +unix/hlib/mkiraf.csh +unix/hlib/install + Added user-specific cache directory name. (6/26/11) + +.version +pkg/cl/cl.par +pkg/ecl/cl.par +unix/hlib/motd +unix/hlib/install +unix/hlib/login.cl +unix/hlib/irafarch.csh +unix/hlib/zzsetenv.def + Updated to v2.16DEV (6/30/11) + +unix/os/zmaloc.c +unix/os/zraloc.c + Number of bytes was being cast as (int) meaning allocations > 2GB were + not being handled properly (6/30/11) + +unix/os/zgcmdl.c + On OSX systems apps can no longer reliably get the environ pointer, + meaning we can't get the argv vector of arguments using the old method. + Ifdef'd the code to use the _NSGetArgv() and _NSGetArgc() methods to + get pointers to these values from the dynamic libs. Fixes a problem + with cmdline args from IMFORT programs. (7/15/11) + +sys/etc/votable.x + Added a new file of VOTable utility procedures. (7/15/11) + +unix/os/zfacss.c + Modified to check if non-existent file is a symlink, if so, return the + access status of the link itself (9/6/11) + +unix/hlib/iraf32.h +unix/hlib/iraf64.h +unix/hlib/libc/spp.h + Added definitions for SYMLINK_FILE type (9/6/11) + +sys/fio/delete.x + Modified to allow deletion of zombie symlinks (9/6/11) + +sys/fio/open.x +sys/imio/immapz.x +pkg/tbtables/tbtopn.x + Modified to handle file:// URIs (9/6/11) + +sys/imio/imt/imxpreproc.x + Allowed file:// URIs, no longer confused with concatenation (9/6/11) + +sys/libc/strdup.c + +sys/libc/proto.h +unix/hlib/libc/libc.h + Added a binding for a strdup() function (9/14/11) + +*.hlp + Minor modifications to MANY help files to remove duplicate words (9/19/11) + +unix/hlib/login.cl + Added some (commented out) code to allow user control of SAMP startup + on login. The system-wide method is to turn on the 'samp_onstart' + variable in hlib$zzsetenv.def (9/21/11) + +ys/mwcs/wftnx.x +sys/mwcs/wfzpx.x +sys/mwcs/wfzpn.x + The maximum change revision (2/18/11) did not think through the units. + So the value was 1 degree which is probably too large. This was changed + to 30 arcsec. + (9/28/11, Valdes) + +sys/mwcs/mkpkg +sys/mwcs/wfinit.x +sys/mwcs/wftpv.x + + Added a new function driver for a WCS called TPV; tangent plane with + PV distortion coefficients as described by Calabretta & Greisen in 2000 + (http://www.astromatic.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=271). + (9/28/11, Valdes) + +lib/syserr.h +lib/syserrmsg +sys/etc/urlget.x + Added support for URL redirection (code 300) to access (10/5/11) + +system/system.hd +system/system.men +system/doc/bench.hlp + Added help page for the BENCH task, fixed src entry for SPY task. (10/24/11) + +util/fget + Added wrapper script around URLGET task that can be used as a backup + when there is no WGET command on the machine (11/19/11) + +pkg/tbtables/tbbnll.x +pkg/tbtables/tbfnew.x +pkg/tbtables/tbfopn.x +pkg/tbtables/tbfpri.x +pkg/tbtables/tbttyp.x + Commented out the equivalence statements being used to force alignment + of local variables. Was causing 64-bit problems. (12/1/11) + +pkg/tbtables/fitsio/fttdnn.f + Disabled NaN checking for this function. This was done previously for + the real-value function but missed for doubles. Will need to be + revisited once there is more time. (12/2/11) + +sys/imio/imrbpx.x + Fixed a problem with getting 'nearest' boundary extension values from + int images on 64-bit systems (12/14/11) + +sys/imio/iki/fxf/fxfupk.x + Fixed a problem on 64-bit systems where BITPIX=32 data with bscale/bzero + values was garbage values. Needed to unpack int array before scaling + (12/20/11) + +local/cache + +local/login.cl + Updated the login.cl file for the iraf user, added a 'cache' directory + to be used for the account (1/4/12) + +unix/hlib/install + Turned off the installation of the /dev fifo pipes as a default since + these are rarely used any more. If needed, "install -f" will create + them on platforms that support FIFOs (1/15/12) + +unix/hlib/install + Added code to install the voclientd/voclient.jar files in the local + bindir as a symlink. (1/15/12) + +unix/hlib/iraf.h + Increased the size of SZ_FNAME to 511 to accomodate lengthy URLs. The + max HTTP URL size is typically 1024, but this seemed escessive (1/15/12) + +sys/etc/main.x + Added checks for a "hlib$zzsetenv.def" file or a file pointed to by an + 'irafinit' environment variable to set or override the system + zzsetenv.def file. The first case allows for an alternate 'hlib' + definition (as is used in the pipeline), the second for a file that + may only partially override the environment (1/17/12) + +sys/etc/prpsio.x +sys/gio/gki/gkiopen.x +sys/gio/gki/gkiclose.x +sys/gio/gki/gkideact.x +sys/gio/gki/gkireact.x +sys/gio/gki/gkisetwcs.x +sys/gio/gki/gkigetwcs.x + The pseudofile i/o to the graphics stream has been broken all this time. + When opening the GKI stream, set/get wcs etc the xmit packet is preceeded + with the file descriptor number, written as SZ_INT in the GKI code and + read as SZ_INT in the prpsio.x code. In cases where a 32-bit task binary + is being used on a 64-bit system, the CL is trying to read a 64-bit int + from a stream written with a 32-bit value, leading to a corrupted + descriptor number and usually a segfault. Modified so the descriptor is + written/read as SZ_INT32 to be compatible. (2/2/12) + +local/COPYRIGHTS +local/LICENSES + + Modified the COPYRIGHTS statement and included the text for the CDDL + and UCAR licenses. As far as we now know, IRAF is now "free". (2/17/12) + +sys/imio/imflsh.x + Fixed a bug in which TY_INT images weren't being handled properly by + the system (2/24/12) + +sys/etc/urlget.x + Added support for Content-Length header values to avoid a socket + timeout behavior from some web servers (3/2/12) + +.version +pkg/cl/cl.par +pkg/ecl/cl.par +pkg/vocl/cl.par +unix/hlib/motd +unix/hlib/install +unix/hlib/login.cl +unix/hlib/irafarch.csh +unix/hlib/zzsetenv.def + Updated version strings to final export (3/5/12) + +unix/boot/mkpkg/tok.c + Modified the $ifnewer behavior to return a 'true' value if the + second argument doesn't yet exist. (3/6/12) + +sys/osb/mkpkg +sys/osb/iscl32.c +sys/osb/iscl64.c +unix/hlib/libc/knames.h +sys/imio/iki/fxf/fxfupk.x + Added a new OSB routine ISCL32/ISCL64 that applies the FITS bscale/bzero + to pixel data. This is required in the FITS kernel where the buffer + is a XCHAR array but there are alignment issues on linux systems when + passing arrays between spp/C codes. (3/7/12) + +sys/imio/imt/imxexpand.x +sys/imio/imt/imxpreproc.x + The use of "@file" and the contents of the file contained extns or + sections on the images, was broken. The file was being read correctly, + however the square brackets weren't being properly escaped when + passed to the fntgfn code to create the list. (3/9/12) + +Makefile +util/iraf_update + +util/iraf_latest + +util/self_update + Added stub routines to permit simple updates of the system. New Makefile + targets include: + + latest Update entire system + check_latest Check system update status + latest_src Update source code only + latest_core Update core system only + latest_noao Update NOAO package only + latest_vo Update VO package only + + The 'iraf_latest' script is the workhorse for the update, but the details + of how the patches will be built or packaged are still TBD. Because the + first thing done is to update the build/util scripts, we can defer this + until the first release. (3/11/12) + +sys/imio/imrbpx.x + There was still a problem with boundary extension using constant values. + For int data, the IM_OOBPIX value was being converted to int in impakr() + but was packed as a 32-bit value. However, it was not then being + unpacked to a 64-bit INT in imrbpx() as was done for the nearest pixel + values. (3/12/12) + +------------------------------------------------------ +System Frozen for V2.16.0 Release (3/12/12) +------------------------------------------------------ + +sys/imio/imrbpx.x + Use of constant boundary extension wasn't being properly unpacked on + 64-bit systems (3/12/12) + +sys/imt/imt.x +sys/imt/imxexpand.x +sys/imt/imxpreproc.x + Fixed a bug in which @files containing files with section/extension + info weren't being properly expanded. (3/14/12) + +imcoords/src/t_ccmap.x +imcoords/ccmap.par +lib/geofit.x +lib/geogmap.gx + Updates to the previous changes. A new option "tweak" was added to + the values for the "refpoint" parameter to allow controlling whether + to tweak the input tangent point. (3/16/12, Valdes) + +noao/lib/obsdb.dat + Added an entry for the Langkawi National Observatory (Malaysia) submitted + by user. (3/18/12) + +------------------------------------------------------ +System Frozen for V2.16.0 Release (3/18/12) +------------------------------------------------------ + -- cgit