Just a heads up about packaging starlink for linux distributions. I've
gotten starlink to compile and link using native libraries on Mageia, and
I've uploaded my changes to
https://github.com/joequant/starlink. I
haven't actually try to run any of the new executables, but one step at a
time.
The big bottleneck that I have right now is PGPLOT. The trouble is that
PGPLOT seems to have a non-distro friendly non-commercial license that
would prevent it from being added to linux distros.
Fortunately, there is a drop in replacement for PGPLOT called pg2plplot
which links against PLplot which unlike PGPLOT is actively being
developed. Unfortunately there are a lot of additional calls that haven't
been implemented yet,