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System Notes File for IRAF Version 2.15.
Begun with V2.15 code freeze 22 Nov 2010.
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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.....
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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.....
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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)


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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)

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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)

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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)

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