Pre-Compiled Perl Libraries In HEASoft
HEASoft contains several Perl Libraries which provide Perl interfaces to
core libraries such as PIL and CFITSIO. These interfaces are currently
used by a number of tools, primarily in mission packages such as Swift,
Suzaku, and NuSTAR. Portability of the pre-compiled binaries
depends heavily on the version of Perl used to generate the binaries, and in
many cases users may find that there is a mismatch between their version of
Perl and the one we used.
Note that after installing a new version of Perl, you will need to redefine the LHEAPERL environment variable used by HEASoft in order for the pre-compiled binaries to work. The easiest way to do this is by editing the headas-setup script to use your new Perl. That file lives here: heasoft-6.34/<platform>/BUILD_DIR/headas-setupand you will need to change value of the LHEAPERL variable on line 65. If you have any questions about the information above, please write to us at the FTOOLS help desk. HEASoft / FTOOLS Help Desk If FTOOLS has been useful in your research, please reference this site (https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools) and use the ASCL reference for HEASoft [ascl:1408.004] or the ASCL reference for the original FTOOLs paper [ascl:9912.002]: Blackburn, J. K. 1995, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 77, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ed. R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne, and J. J. E. Hayes (San Francisco: ASP), 367. Web page maintained by: Bryan K. Irby HEASARC Home | Observatories | Archive | Calibration | Software | Tools | Students/Teachers/Public Last modified: Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 15:36:07 EDT |