Known Issues

Installation Issues

Cross Platform

  • Compiling some packages—in particular afw—require large amounts of RAM to compile. This is compounded as the system will automatically attempt to parallelize the build, and can cause the build to run extremely slowly or fail altogether. On machines with less than 8 GB of RAM, disable parallelization by setting EUPSPKG_NJOBS=1 in your environment before running eups distrib.

Red Hat (and clones) specific

Older platforms

  • If you have a problem building on RHEL 6 check the Pre-requisites to make sure sure you are using a more recent version of gcc (minimum required is 4.8)
  • curl looks for certificates in /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt rather than /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt. The solution is to copy ca-certificates.crt to ca-bundle.crt.

OS X specific

New versions

  • El Capitan came out after our testing period, and there are known issues (DM-3200) that will be addressed in the next release.

Older platforms

  • Some old installations of XCode on Macs create a /Developer directory.  This can interfere with installation.

  • Macs must use the clang compiler, not gcc. [DM-3405]

    One version of this problem occurs when using Macports, which, by default, will create a symlink from /opt/local/bin/c++ to its version of g++. Try removing that, starting a new shell, and restarting eups distrib install.