[GRASS5] GRASS 5.7.0 beta1

[Radim Blazek]

Thanks.

On Tuesday 01 June 2004 17:56, Paul Kelly wrote:
> Worked OK compiling on an IRIX 6.2 system and installing on IRIX 6.4.
> Configure line was
>   CFLAGS="-O" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure --with-libs=/usr/local/lib
> --with-includes=/usr/local/include --with-dbm=no --with-odbc=no
> --with-postgres=no --with-fftw=yes --with-motif=yes --with-blas=yes
> --with-cxx=no --with-opendwg
> --with-opendwg-includes=/indigo-disk2/grass/opendwg/toolkit
> --with-opendwg-libs=/indigo-disk2/grass/opendwg/toolkit
> and the only modification required before running make was the usual one
> of commenting out the HAVE_KEYPAD line in include/config.h so it will work
> with the (buggy) IRIX Winterm.
>
> After installing the message reported
>
> Installation finished. Start GRASS 5.7.0-mips-sgi-irix6.2-01_06_2004 with
>      /usr/local/bin/grass-5.7.0-mips-sgi-irix6.2-01_06_2004
>
> which is kind of off-putting! Especially as all that needed to be typed
> was grass57.

I have changed that now to $BINDIR/$GRASSPRG (= $BINDIR/grass57).

> One another annoyance is that all the monitors closed down when exiting.
> Is this a new feature? I usually just leave monitors running permanently
> and if just exiting and restarting quickly to change location this could
> become annoying.

Yes, new feature:
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2004-May/014486.html
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2004-May/014528.html

I know that it is more work now, I was used to do the same. Maybe
it is just question of a habit because now it is possible to start more
sessions at the same time. Anyway, I think that the possibility 
to run (without tricks) more sessions (e.g. scripts in one mapset
and interactive work in another) is more important than 
this inconvenience. 
We can maybe find a way how to reopen monitors when grass is started in X?

Radim