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IDL_PATH problems [message #68647] Mon, 09 November 2009 07:51 Go to next message
Bernhard Reinhardt is currently offline  Bernhard Reinhardt
Messages: 26
Registered: October 2008
Junior Member
Hi everyone,

I just came across a weird problem: I normally use the idlde but now I
want to run a program on the console.

I ran the program but encountered an error when IDL couldn't locate one
of David's routines "undefine" which resides in my library-folder. I
found out that the IDL_PATH was not set.

So I set the IDL_PATH accordingly.

My IDL_PATH now looks like
IDL_PATH=+/athome/rein_be/IDLWorkspace:+/athome/rein_be/CIMa ster

When I run my program now, it doesn't even compile:

IDL> object_based_validation_batch

li=READ_ASCII(li_file, TEMPLATE=templ)
^
% Syntax error.

When running
IDL> templ
idl restores a templ.sav that resides somewhere in the IDL-Path. So I
moved this templ.sav to templ.sav.bak

now
IDL> templ
yields
% Attempt to call undefined procedure/function: 'TEMPL'.
% Execution halted at: $MAIN$

But the same compilation error occurs.

Any ideas where to search? Btw: I'm using idl 7.1 on Linux.

Regards,

Bernhard
Re: IDL_PATH [message #70297 is a reply to message #68647] Wed, 31 March 2010 09:03 Go to previous message
Michael Galloy is currently offline  Michael Galloy
Messages: 1114
Registered: April 2006
Senior Member
On 3/31/10 3:11 AM, bing999 wrote:
> I am having trouble with my IDL_PATH defined in my .bashrc.
>
> Here is how it is defined:
>
> IDL_PATH="+${my_path}/idl/:+/home/jim/lib/IDL/:<IDL_DEFAULT >+/home/bob/
> routines/:"
>
> export IDL_PATH
>
> Then it points to 3 directories ( my IDL, jim's IDL and bob
> routines'). Note that "my path" is correctly defined before because
> wherever i am, i can call routines stored here.
> The thing is that when i add a new routine in ${my_path}/idl/ and i
> want to call it from another directory, i get the message: "Attempt to
> call undefined procedure/function" whereas it is well located in
> {my_path}/idl/....
>
> Does anyone know what goes wrong?
> Thanks.

I see a couple things. First, you are missing a ":" after
"<IDL_DEFAULT>", but that shouldn't affect finding routines in $my_path/idl.

Check out the help for PATH_CACHE. IDL builds a cache of the .pro files
in the directories in the !path. If you slip a new file in later, you
have to manually compile it with something like:

IDL> .compile my_path/idl/my_routine

or rebuild the cache with:

IDL> path_cache, /rebuild

I usually just restart IDL.

Mike
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