<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">I am attempting to build GRASS on my machine and I suppose I am having trouble.  I am so bewildered by all of this I can't actually be sure.  I am posting to request help.  Here is my situation:</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I am new to GRASS development, and I am working on GSoC on integrating PDAL interoperability.   I have not yet set up my project's wiki page or I would link it in this sentence.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I am running OSGeo-live on Oracle Virtual Box with my base OS being Windows 8.1.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">My mentor, Vashek Petras, directed me to start here: <a href="https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#Dependencies">https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#Dependencies</a> <br><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">and work through the build procedure.  On that page, I got down as far as "<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">simple configure, compile and install</span>" and ran that once.  I don't remember what it told me, but I figured it was okay since I could always do it again, so I executed the next line (under the "or"):</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="monospace, monospace">./configure && make -j2  &&  sudo checkinstall</font><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div>When I do this, I get the message </div><div>Building Debian package... FAILED!</div><div><br></div><div>so I am thinking this is bad and I should get this to succeed before moving on to other steps.  Here is more information:  When I try to run it again, I get a screen of Warnings:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">checkinstall 1.6.2, Copyright 2009 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">           This software is released under the GNU GPL.</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">******************************<wbr>***********</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">**** Debian package creation selected ***</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">******************************<wbr>***********</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">*** Warning: The package name "%PACKAGE_NAME" contains upper case</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">*** Warning: letters. dpkg might not like that so I changed</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">*** Warning: them to lower case.</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">*** Warning: The package name "%package_name" does not start with</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">*** Warning: an alphanumetic character. dpkg might not like that so I prefixed</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">*** Warning: it with a number 0.</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">*** Warning: The package name "0%package_name" contains illegal</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">*** Warning: characters. dpkg might not like that so I changed</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">*** Warning: them to dashes.</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">*** Warning: The package version "%PACKAGE_VERSION" is not a</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">*** Warning: debian policy compliant one. Please specify an alternate one</font></div><div><br></div></div><div>I let it continue to run, but eventually it offers to show me the log, which appears here:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">dpkg-deb: error: parsing file '/var/tmp/tmp.J1ZMR3Tl3Q/<wbr>package/DEBIAN/control' near line 11 package '0-package-name':</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"> empty value for version</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">/var/tmp/tmp.J1ZMR3Tl3Q/<wbr>dpkgbuild.log (END)</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>Is this enough information for someone to help me?<br><br></div><div>- Paul Schrum<br></div><div>Raleigh, NC, US<br></div></div></div></div>