psrchive build notes – Carleton Astronet Admin Log

PSRCHIVE BUILD NOTES

This file is also located /usr/share/astro/psrhome/PsarchiveBuildNotes.txt
Yuping Huang
02/25/2016

psrchive is built under 64bit and with gfortran as the fortran compiler. Note that they require a 64bit gfortran compiled pgplot. I will start by building psrchive since it well build its dependencies automatically.

—–PSRCHIVE—————
Set $PSRHOME to /usr/share/astro/psrhome/ this is the directory for all the softwares.

Add $PSRHOME/bin to your $PATH variable

$ cd $PSRHOME

Unzip psrcat in the directory (psrcat available at http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/pulsar/psrcat/download.html). Then add in .cshrc setenv PSRCAT_FILE $PSRHOME/psrcat/psrcat.db

$ mkdir src && cd src

$ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/psrchive/code psrchive

$ cd psrchive

$ ./bootstrap

$ ./configure –prefix=$PSRHOME F77=gfortran

Then psrchive will complain about not having required packages. It generetes csh scripts under packages for installation and we will use those

$ cd packages

$./pgplot.csh

Remember to add to .cshrc $PGPLOT_DIR and $PGPLOT_FONTS as the script suggests. In my case it is

setenv PGPLOT_DIR $PSRHOME/pgplot/

setenv PGPLOT_FONTS $PGPLOT_DIR/grfont.dat

You should also add $PGPLOT_DIR to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH in .cshrc.

$./fftw.csh

$./cfitsio.csh

$PSRHOME/x86_64-linux/src/cfitsioTake notes of where the cfitsio source is located. We will need it later. In my case it is under $PSRHOME/src/cfitsio

$source ~/.cshrc

this step validates the changes made to the environmental variables.

$./tempo2.csh

This will install tempo2 but likely pgplot will not be linked and henceforth this is not yet a fully functional tempo2. But it does have the components
that psrchive needs. The tempo2 linked with pgplot will be built seperately later.

You should set your $TEMPO2 variable to the tempo2 runtime directory. In my case it is $PSRHOME/tempo2

$ cd ..

This should bring you back to the psrchive folder where configure is located. Now rerun ./configure. It should not complain about fftw, cfitsio, tempo2 or pgplot

./configure –prefix=$PSRHOME F77=gfortran –with-cfitsio-dir=$PSRHOME/src/cfitsio

If you are still having trouble, look at http://psrchive.sourceforge.net/third/packages.shtml. When I did it it can find everything but cfitsio so I fed in the
–with-cfitsio-dir directory. Now we are ready to build it.

$ make

$ make check

$ make isntall

Done! the binaries should locate in $PSRHOME/bin . You should add it to your $PATH variable.