Netpbm location issues compiling 0.94

[alexw-im]

Related to #272 but not quite the same since I'm not using docker. I just recently realized that when I switched to 0.94 running on a raspberry pi, there seem to be path issues with netpbm during compilation. solve-field completes but the only output plot written is *-objs.jpg, and it's empty.

I manually created the symlink mentioned above on my pi before installing 0.94 and that seems to have fixed the issues below, that is ln -s /usr/include /usr/local/include/netpbm before make; make extra; sudo make install

Since there's no dockerfile for a bare metal install, I'm not sure where to fix this mine for future bare-metal users, but perhaps there's a good solution? A new check in the makefile or something?

For direct comparison, here's output from 0.93 with no errors and everything working per my expectations:

~/test-images $ solve-field --use-source-extractor --overwrite 019_21deg_gain5.jpg
Reading input file 1 of 1: "019_21deg_gain5.jpg"...
jpegtopnm: WRITING PPM FILE
Read file stdin: 1280 x 800 pixels x 1 color(s); maxval 255
Using 8-bit output
Extracting sources...

> WARNING: default.sex not found, using internal defaults

----- Source Extractor 2.25.0 started on 2023-08-24 at 14:12:07 with 1 thread

----- Measuring from: tmp.fits.eeKxqi
      "Unnamed" / no ext. header / 1280x800 / 8 bits (integers)
(M+D) Background: 51.2905    RMS: 4.09629    / Threshold: 6.14444
      Objects: detected 49       / sextracted 49

> All done (in 0.1 s: 5872.2 lines/s , 359.7 detections/s)
Sorting brightness using MAG_AUTO and BACKGROUND columns failed; falling back to MAG_AUTO.
Reading sort column "MAG_AUTO"
Sorting sort column
mmapping input file
Copying table header.
Writing row 0
Done
Solving...
Reading file "./019_21deg_gain5.axy"...
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4119.fits, field objects 1-10).
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4118.fits, field objects 1-10).
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4117.fits, field objects 1-10).
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4116.fits, field objects 1-10).
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4115.fits, field objects 1-10).
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4114.fits, field objects 1-10).
  log-odds ratio 137.689 (6.27208e+59), 18 match, 0 conflict, 9 distractors, 22 index.
  RA,Dec = (282.188,34.3405), pixel scale 14.336 arcsec/pix.
  Hit/miss:   Hit/miss: +++-+-+++++++-+-+++--++---+(best)-------------------+++
Field 1: solved with index index-4113.fits.
Field 1 solved: writing to file ./019_21deg_gain5.solved to indicate this.
Field: 019_21deg_gain5.jpg
Field center: (RA,Dec) = (282.186943, 34.345040) deg.
Field center: (RA H:M:S, Dec D:M:S) = (18:48:44.866, +34:20:42.145).
Field size: 5.09166 x 3.1871 degrees
Field rotation angle: up is -64.2145 degrees E of N
Field parity: neg
Creating new FITS file "./019_21deg_gain5.new"...
Creating index object overlay plot...
Creating annotation plot...
Your field contains:
  The star Sheliak (β Lyr / 10 Lyr)
  The star ν Lyr / ν2 Lyr / 9 Lyr
  The star ν1 Lyr / 8 Lyr

Here's the output with exactly the same environment, but using the 0.94 release package from github:

~/test-images $ solve-field --use-source-extractor --overwrite 019_21deg_gain5.jpg
Reading input file 1 of 1: "019_21deg_gain5.jpg"...
jpegtopnm: WRITING PPM FILE
Read file stdin: 1280 x 800 pixels x 1 color(s); maxval 255
Using 8-bit output
Extracting sources...

> WARNING: default.sex not found, using internal defaults

----- Source Extractor 2.25.0 started on 2023-08-24 at 14:29:56 with 1 thread

----- Measuring from: tmp.fits.XSj44y
      "Unnamed" / no ext. header / 1280x800 / 8 bits (integers)
(M+D) Background: 51.2905    RMS: 4.09629    / Threshold: 6.14444
      Objects: detected 49       / sextracted 49

> All done (in 0.1 s: 5713.3 lines/s , 349.9 detections/s)
Sorting brightness using MAG_AUTO and BACKGROUND columns failed; falling back to MAG_AUTO.
Reading sort column "MAG_AUTO"
Sorting sort column
mmapping input file
Copying table header.
Writing row 0
Done
cairoutils.c:715:cairoutils_read_ppm_stream: Netpbm is not available; can't read PPM imagescairoutils.c:715:cairoutils_read_ppm_stream: Netpbm is not available; can't read PPM images
cairoutils.c:715:cairoutils_read_ppm_stream: Netpbm is not available; can't read PPM images

cairoutils.c:715:cairoutils_read_ppm_stream: Netpbm is not available; can't read PPM imageslibpng warning: Image width is zero in IHDR
libpng warning: Image height is zero in IHDR
libpng error: Invalid IHDR data

Aborted
Solving...
Reading file "./019_21deg_gain5.axy"...
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4119.fits, field objects 1-10).
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4118.fits, field objects 1-10).
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4117.fits, field objects 1-10).
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4116.fits, field objects 1-10).
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4115.fits, field objects 1-10).
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4114.fits, field objects 1-10).
  log-odds ratio 137.689 (6.27208e+59), 18 match, 0 conflict, 9 distractors, 22 index.
  RA,Dec = (282.188,34.3405), pixel scale 14.336 arcsec/pix.
  Hit/miss:   Hit/miss: +++-+-+++++++-+-+++--++---+(best)-------------------+++
Field 1: solved with index index-4113.fits.
Field 1 solved: writing to file ./019_21deg_gain5.solved to indicate this.
Field: 019_21deg_gain5.jpg
Field center: (RA,Dec) = (282.186943, 34.345040) deg.
Field center: (RA H:M:S, Dec D:M:S) = (18:48:44.866, +34:20:42.145).
Field size: 5.09166 x 3.1871 degrees
Field rotation angle: up is -64.2145 degrees E of N
Field parity: neg
Creating new FITS file "./019_21deg_gain5.new"...
solve-field.c:327:plot_source_overlay Plotting command was cancelled
 solve-field.c:133:run_command Command was: "/usr/local/astrometry/bin/plotxy -I /tmp/tmp.ppm.0j8rPy -i ./019_21deg_gain5.axy -X X_IMAGE -Y Y_IMAGE -C red -w 2 -N 50 -x 1 -y 1 -P | /usr/local/astrometry/bin/plotxy -i ./019_21deg_gain5.axy -X X_IMAGE -Y Y_IMAGE -I - -w 2 -r 3 -C red -n 50 -N 200 -x 1 -y 1 > ./019_21deg_gain5-objs.png"

 solve-field.c:132:run_command Command exited with exit status 134

Here's the script I'm using to install astrometry generally:

# Install Astrometry.net
echo "Installing Astrometry.net 0.94"
wget -nc https://github.com/dstndstn/astrometry.net/releases/download/0.94/astrometry.net-0.94.tar.gz
tar -xzvf astrometry.net-0.94.tar.gz
cd astrometry.net-0.94

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y build-essential curl git file pkg-config swig libcairo2-dev libnetpbm10-dev netpbm libpng-dev libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libcfitsio-dev wcslib-dev python3 python3-pip python3-distutils python3-dev python3-scipy python3-pil python3-venv libatlas-base-dev

pip3 install numpy pyfits

make
make extra
sudo make install
echo "export PATH=/usr/local/astrometry/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.profile
sudo echo "export PATH=/usr/local/astrometry/bin:$PATH" >> /root/.profile
cd ../
# Back in install dir
./catalog-install.sh

Going from the (failed) 0.94 installation to the (good) 0.93 installation, all I did was sudo mv /usr/local/astrometry /usr/local/astrometry-0.94 and then remove astrometry.net-0.94.tar.gz, download the 0.93 release from http://astrometry.net/downloads/, and untar/make/make extra/sudo make install (and re-copy index files of course).