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Installing RST on a Mac...once more! #609

Open mtwalach opened 2 months ago

mtwalach commented 2 months ago

BUG

I am trying to install RST on a new MacBook and seeing an error I have never seen before. When running make.code. The installation aborts upon the following error: locate.c:190:31: error: incompatible function pointer types passing 'int (struct dirent *)' to parameter of type 'int (*)(const struct dirent *)' [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types] status=scandir(dir,&dlist,dsel,alphasort); ^~~~ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/dirent.h:150:11: note: passing argument to parameter here int (*)(const struct dirent *), int (*)(const struct dirent **, const struct dirent **)) __DARWIN_INODE64(scandir); ^ 10 warnings and 1 error generated. make: *** [locate.o] Error 1 Compilation Aborted.

I am guessing it's something to do with the C libraries or the compiler but it is not something I have ever encountered before, so I don't know how to fix it. Any ideas?

Priority

RST version

Does the bug occur in an official RST release?

Example of the bug

The error above occurs when compiling the following:

`Compiling Binary:/Users/walach/Documents/rst/codebase/analysis/src.bin/cdf/istp_plot.1.11

make clean rm -f *.o rm -f version.h rm -f errstr.h rm -f hlpstr.h rm -f istp_plot make make.version /Users/walach/Documents/rst/codebase/analysis/src.bin/cdf/istp_plot.1.11 make.help ./doc/istp_plot.doc.xml `

See log file here: superdarn-rst.build.20240403.1717.txt

Attempts

What have you tried already to fix it? I followed @billetd's instructions (https://github.com/SuperDARN/rst/issues/556#issuecomment-1652250845) for M chipped Macs and am still getting errors.

What have you tried to work around it? N/A

Data Access

Please describe how to obtain the data needed to reproduce the bug (e.g. specific file, use make_fit on any rawacf file). N/A

Potential Bug Location

No idea.

Potential Solution(s)

No idea.

Extra Notes

egthomas commented 2 months ago

@mtwalach normally I would just suggest tar'ing (or deleting) the problematic directories since they appear to be mostly older solar wind CDF-related binaries, but it appears this issue may also arise when compiling map_addmodel. I'm not a Mac user so unfortunately I can't offer any help - sorry!

billetd commented 2 months ago

I'm gonna take a closer look at this at some point. I believe the main issue is in compiling certain C libraries, but not all. I've had success installing RST on M-chipped Macs under Rosetta (like in the comment you linked), but then on a separate computer not everything worked correctly. For example, using the C libraries for map and fitacf reading in IDL worked, but none of the data processing libraries (mapaddmodel, rawtofit, fitspeckremoval, etc) did.

Ultimately I'm 90% the root cause is that there is a mismatch between the compiler and the code, i.e. trying to compile x86 architecture with ARM, or vice versa. Using Rosetta can force compatibility with code written for x86 (which RST is), but something underlying is still broken using that.

mtwalach commented 2 months ago

Thank you both for the replies to this. I have forced it to complete, using your method @egthomas. I had to zip a total of four directories, which is not ideal: codebase/analysis/src.bin/cdf/istp_plot.1.11 codebase/analysis/src.bin/cdf/istp_text.1.24 codebase/superdarn/src.bin/tk/tool/imfdelay.1.7 codebase/superdarn/src.bin/tk/tool/map_addimf.1.18 I don't think I have ever used the istep-related codes but would be quite keen to get the imf functionalities back... Do you think there is anything I can do to fix it in the short term?