make-radex

RADEX build by GNU Make

Overview

This project provides a GNU Makefile that builds RADEX (see also astropenguin/homebrew-radex for the Homebrew version). Now you can build RADEX by the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/astropenguin/make-radex.git
cd make-radex
make build

RADEX commands

The following three commands and their aliases will be built:

Command	Alias	Descripion
radex-1	radex-uni	RADEX built with option 1 (uniform sphere)
radex-2	radex-lvg	RADEX built with option 2 (expanding sphere)
radex-3	radex-slab	RADEX built with option 3 (plane parallel slab)

As a major difference from the normal RADEX build, the path of the data directory is not set by default: This allows you to specify the relative or full path of a data file (*.dat). Note that the tilde expansion (i.e. ~/) cannot be used for the path specification.

Customization

The following options can be set for the RADEX build:

Variable	Default	Description
RADEX_DATADIR	not set	Path of the directory for RADEX data files (.dat)
RADEX_LOGFILE	./radex.log	Path of the RADEX log file
RADEX_MINITER	10	The number of minimum iterations in a RADEX calculation
RADEX_MAXITER	9999	The number of maximum iterations in a RADEX calculation

For example, if you want to set the data directory:

make build RADEX_DATADIR=${HOME}/radex