HEAsoft v6.2 Bug List

Last modified Thursday, 05-Jul-2007 17:56:19 EDT

If you are using HEASOFT v6.1.x and don't want to upgrade to v6.2.x just yet, see the HEASOFT 6.1.x Bug List.

Please visit the HEASOFT Supported Platforms page for current information about supported operating systems and compilers.

Several packages track bugs separately from this page:

The following is a list of known bugs in v6.2.x of HEAsoft not covered by the above pages.

Swift PSF in XIMAGE:

Calculation of King coefficients in ximage's Swift PSF routine has been modified to match that of A. Moretti (as in the xrtmkarf code). This modification may result in significant differences in the coefficients for off-axis sources (less so for on-axis sources). To update your version of ximage, first download this patch. Then:
```
- cd to the directory containing your headas-6.2/ source code tree.
- Unpack the tar file you downloaded above ("tar xf ximage-swift-psf.tar")
- cd headas-6.2/image/ximage/src/
- hmake
- hmake install
```
Source builds on Mac OS X 10.3.x / Darwin 7.x (PANTHER):

Panther users may hit a build error in the newmakefilter task, stating:
```
ComplexData.hh:153: error: `isnan' undeclared (first use this function)
```
To fix this problem, edit the file

headas-6.2/attitude/tasks/newmakefilter/ComplexData.hh

and remove lines 9 and 13, i.e. uncomment the #ifdef __APPLE_CC__ section:
```
09: /*
10: #ifdef __APPLE_CC__
11: static long isnan(double value) { return __isnand(value); }
12: #endif
13: */
```
This code is only necessary on Panther (and breaks builds with newer versions of the Xcode compilers). After making this edit, the build should hopefully go smoothly.

FTOOLS HELP DESK

If FTOOLS has been useful in your research, please reference this website (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools/) and the following:

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.

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