Hi!

I've been trying to get Galprop v54 r2423 installed. I have installed all the required libraries in a separate directories and was able to compile galprop without any errors. When I try to run the first (or any) test however, I get an error about a version mismatch from cfitsio. The strange thing is that it says the version is -nan. Usually the problem is solved by recompiling the cfitsio library to get everything up to date, but this doesn't work. I think I am missing something obvious in configurating, but can't figure out what. Any ideas? This is the output if I run galprop: http://pastebin.com/105j8JbJ

Best regards,
Matt

ps: thanks for the amazing work on galprop, the results (webrun and papers obviously) are amazing!

I have sometimes had similar problems which were once related to Healpix (which requires cfitsio 3.26 while you have 3.29), or occasionally from outdated environment variables. I see it occurs as soon as it tries to read the first dataset. Which HealPix are you using, 2.2a or 3.11 and with what cfitsio there? it might be somehow inheriting it from there (just a guess).


And thanks for the appreciative remarks!

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Andy Strong, MPE

I installed the latest cfitsio, which is version 3.360, and linked to it for both Healpix (3.11) and galprop. Don't know where it would get the version 3.29 from then... Should I try cleaning everything and redo it for version 3.26?

Best regards,
Matt

I think the HealPix distribution requires (or at least suggests) 3.26, and in my compilation I used that throughout and it worked.
So yes try doing everything from scratch with that. Let's see...

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Andy Strong, MPE

I don't have any issues using cfitsio 3.360 with HEALPix, but I do have had issues with cfitsio and its version control. Make sure you don't have any other version installed system wide or accessible by default. You are most likely mixing 3.360 that uses SONAME versioning with 3.29 that uses version numbering. So it looks like you have 3.29 linked to some part of the chain, maybe CCfits?

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Gudlaugur Johannesson, GALPROP developer

that reminds me I also had a CCfits+cfitsio related issue. Also some kind of system-wide long-term memory haunted me for long with this kind of message, even after recompiling everything consistently.

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Andy Strong, MPE

Ok, so I have been able to get it working.

I first tried with cfitsio versio 3.31 since that was in some config file from Healpix, then the mismatch changed from 3.29 vs -nan to 3.29 vs 3.31. Then I did what I should have done in the first place and installed cfitsio 3.29 (and again relink CCfits and Healpix to that version) and the problem was solved. I still don't know where it got the version 3.29 (since I installed and linked everything from scratch every time), it must indeed be some memory thing.

Thanks a lot for the help!!

Excellent that you finally succeeded! this feedback can be helpful for other users encountering similar problems.
Let us know any further experiences running it, suggestions for enhancements, bugs etc.

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Andy Strong, MPE