[GRASS-dev] wrong configure documentation for compilation with wxwidgets ?

[Glynn Clements]

Moritz Lennert wrote:

> >> ./configure --help shows:
> >>
> >> --with-wxwidgets[=path/wx-config] enable wxWidgets support (wx-config with
> >> path, e.g. '--with-wxwidgets=/usr/local/bin/wx-config', default: no)
> >>
> >> but this does not seem to work, while below solution does. Looking through
> >> the configure file, I don't really understand why this is so (but then
> >> again, I can't claim that I understand everything in that file).
> >>
> >> So, is the documentation wrong, or does below solution just work by chance ?
> >> On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:16:26 +0100,
> >> Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>> On 05/11/08 03:13, Seb wrote:
> >>>> Yes, I liked that better too.  However, modifying that target as:
> >>>>
> >>>> ,-----[ rules (lines: 66 - 67) ]
> >>>> |
> >>>> --with-wxwidgets=/usr/lib/wx/config/gtk2-unicode-release-2.8 \
> >>>> `-----
> >>> It should be:
> >>> --with-wx=/usr/lib/wx/config/gtk2-unicode-release-2.8\
> >>> --with-wxwidgets \
> >>
> >> Yes, this worked.  The packages built fine.  The only problem reamining
> >> is the clash betwee grass-preview-doc and grass-doc I posted earlier.
> >> Thanks everyone for your help.
> > 
> > there is no --with-wx just --with-wxwidgets which takes as argument
> > *path to wx-config* (similary e.g. to --with-gdal)
> 
> But what is weird is that the above combination works, whereas giving 
> the path to wx-widgets doesn't...

The configure script silently ignores any --with-* options which it
doesn't understand, and it doesn't understand --with-wx.

It's entirely possible that specifying a non-default wx-config script
doesn't work, but that's down the wx installation, not the configure
script.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>