mf cal fail on OSX Catalina

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jcal
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mf cal fail on OSX Catalina

Post by jcal »

Hi all,

I recently upgraded to Catalina (10.15.7). I installed miriad without any issues up until now. Uvspec, pgflag etc seem to be working, but when I call mfcal, it breaks with what could be C memory issue?

Suggest any solutions to this problem? Have I stuffed up the install?

Thanks!

Joe
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Current working directory: /Users/jcal/postdoc/projects/wr112_atca
Current host: Mimir.local
Last system update:
System details: Darwin Mimir.local 19.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 19.6.0: Mon Aug 31 22:12:52 PDT 2020; root:xnu-6153.141.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

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Output from mfcal:
MfCal: $Revision: 1.20 $, $Date: 2017/05/08 02:31:10 $
Selecting parallel-hand polarisations
### Fatal Error: Memory allocation problem in memAlloc
Mark.Wieringa
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Re: mf cal fail on OSX Catalina

Post by Mark.Wieringa »

Hi Joe,

sorry for the late reply, somehow I didn't get notified.
I've just installed a new version of miriad that fixes the problem (at least for me).

Cheers,

Mark
vamoss
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Re: mf cal fail on OSX Catalina

Post by vamoss »

Just noting: the new miriad worked for me, I ran "mirsync" to get the latest version and the memory allocation error disappeared :) thanks Mark!
Mark.Wieringa
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Re: mf cal fail on OSX Catalina

Post by Mark.Wieringa »

No worries, I finally bit the bullet and managed to get rid of the offending code altogether.
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