<div dir="ltr"><div><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>My mentor, Vashek Petras, directed me to start here: <a href="https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#Dependencies" target="_blank">https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/<wbr>wiki/Compile_and_Install_<wbr>Ubuntu#Dependencies</a> <br>and work through the build procedure.  On that page, I am at the point which states,<br><br><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;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">ensure that<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><code class="gmail-mw-highlight" dir="ltr" style="font-family:monospace,courier;color:black;background:rgb(248,248,248) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:2px;padding:1px 4px;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">/usr/local/lib</code><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;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"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>is added to<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><code class="gmail-mw-highlight" dir="ltr" style="font-family:monospace,courier;color:black;background:rgb(248,248,248) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:2px;padding:1px 4px;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">/etc/ld.so.conf</code><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;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"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>and ...</span><br><br></div>Well I have not created /usr/local/lib, so will it create it if it is not present?  But more importantly, what is /etc/ls.so.conf.  I feel I need to understand what role this file plays before I start modifying it.  Currently it contains one single line:<br><br><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf</span><br><br><div>Also, I created a different dev path than /usr/local.  It is /home/user/Desktop/ALL/SourceModules/cpp<br><br></div><div>and the proj directory resides there.  Should I create /usr/local/lib anyway?<br><br></div><div>- Paul<br><br></div></div>