FEAP installation under Linux error

[M. Kurdi]

Hello,
I just installed Feap8_4 under Linux for 64 bit. I commented the arpack and parpack statements in the makefile.in as they were causing errors. After successful creating the executable I'm getting the following error:

./Feap8_4a.a: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
./Feap8_4a.a: line 1: `!<arch>'

Any ideas what the error is due to?
I'm running by ./Feap8_4a.a -iIbeam.dat
Thanks for your help.

[Prof. R.L. Taylor]

First, you could compile the packages files to avoid the first type of errors.  It seems your archive is corrupted somehow, I would clean everything and recompile.  Please tell us what compiler and options (including version number) you are using and be sure to include the integer8 files not the integer4 ones. 

[FEAP_Admin]

The error indicates that you have incompatible object files in your build.
Delete all *.o *.a and executable files.  And try a clean rebuild.

To build the Arpack stuff you need to have blas and lapack on your machine (blas-devel and lapack-devel) and then
include these on the link line.  Or you can use the minimal blas/lapack provided in packages.