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New issues from Xspec 12.7.1
Frequently Asked Questions
List of currently outstanding issues.
Patches:
latest update
12.7.1b Mar 21, 2012
Requires patch installer
v4.2
To apply patches, you'll need to have downloaded and already built the source code distribution
of XSPEC. For details about the patch installer including options available with the latest v4.2, click
here.
Otherwise, just follow the instructions below.
(Note: This assumes you have already set your HEADAS environment variables with the
headas-init script, as you would if you were running XSPEC.)
To make sure your XSPEC installation is up to date with ALL listed patches:
1. If you don't already have the patch installer
tcl script (v4.2), download and place it in the XSPEC src directory. This directory
should be at heasoft-[ver]/Xspec/src from the source code distribution.
2. Download the latest patchfile into
the same directory. There is no need to unzip/untar the patchfile
since the installer will do that.
3. At the command line, launch the script by typing
'tclsh patch_install_[ver].tcl',
and that's all.
The script should detect which patches you've installed previously, copy
the new code files to the necessary directories, determine whether complete or only partial
rebuilds are necessary, and finally perform the rebuilds. Numbers listed in red indicate that the patch modifies the interface
to one or more of XSPEC's libraries. These patches will generally cause longer rebuilds. If you
have a local model library, it is recommended (though not always necessary) that you rebuild it
with initpackage after applying red patches.
| 12.7.1a |
XSPEC is rejecting response files whose EBOUNDS extension is missing
a DETCHANS keyword. In this case, XSPEC should just assume DETCHANS
equals the number of EBOUNDS rows. Our thanks to Mike Corcoran for pointing this out.
Report added on Mar 19, 2012.
This patch modifies heasoft-6.12/Xspec/src/XSModel/Data/Detector/
OGIP-92aResponse.cxx
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| 12.7.1b |
When doing multi-panel plots of plot chain, the
parameter arguments for the last chain plot are being sent to each of the plots.
This patch also improves the error handling in the plot chain and
plot model commands. Our thanks to Jose Martí for pointing this out.
Report added on Mar 21, 2012.
This patch modifies heasoft-6.12/Xspec/src/XSPlot/Commands/
PlotMcmc.cxx,
.h,
PlotModel.cxx,
.h, XSPlot/Plot/
PlotCommand.cxx,
.h,
PlotDirector.cxx,
PlotGroupCreatorClasses.cxx,
.h, and XSUser/Global/
XSGlobal.cxx
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