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Hi Markus,<br>
OK, I am now logged into the Ubuntu system I used, and can better
trace what I did.<br>
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I started my research at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/previewbranch_8_0/INSTALL">https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/previewbranch_8_0/INSTALL</a><br>
Under "Prerequisite/Installation order" I installed/compiled gdal
with ecw, and installed postgres.<br>
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I then did a ./configure (without extra parameters) and tried to
bumble my way through the errors I was getting.<br>
I fired off my initial email to grass-dev as I was not finding the
solution.<br>
<br>
I then found the grass-wiki recipe and corrected the problems by
copy/paste the ./configure for Ubuntu 20.04<br>
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So, a few thoughts from my side.<br>
<ul>
<li>In the github install (all versions of grass), add a pointer
to the grasswiki page, especially at the ./configure paragraph.
(I would find it more reliable and easy to manage a link to one
source of info, than to copy the source into contents of other
documents)<br>
</li>
<li>Amend the configure script error message to suggest the that
the with-XXX-includes= parameter should be used, instead of
just:<br>
configure: error: *** Unable to locate FreeType includes.</li>
<li>As most apt installed products go to specific directories, is
it possible to let the configure script not first try a few
obvious places before crashing with the error message? If they
are not 'apt installed', then they likely go to /usr/<b>local/</b>XXX<br>
</li>
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HTH, and thanks again for your persistence.<br>
Regards,<br>
Zoltan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021/06/21 13:32, Markus Neteler
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<div dir="auto">Hi Zoltan,
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<div dir="auto">Where would you expect this info, i.e. a link to
the wiki?</div>
<div dir="auto">Maybe we can improve things :)</div>
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<div dir="auto">Best</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Zoltan <<a
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<div> Hi Markus/Māris,<br>
Thanks for your interest.<br>
@Māris: I did provide the log tail-end on my first post.<br>
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@Markus: I started off the process using Google/Duck-Duck-Go
to piece together what info I needed, as I wanted ECW
support and one or two other add-ons.<br>
Far too many websites offering help, come up.<br>
I read through a couple but only later the Grasswiki you
referred to below - and then only noticing the
with-XXX-includes folder directives.<br>
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my bad :-(<br>
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Regards and keep well,<br>
Zoltan<br>
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<div><font color="#ff8040"><b>On 2021-06-21 07:20, Maris
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<pre>Please include relevant part of configure.log where exact reasons of
failure will be seen.
Māris.
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<div><font color="#ff8040"><b>On 2021-06-20 18:42, Markus
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<pre>Hi Zoltan,
On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 12:36 PM Zoltan <a href="mailto:zoltans@geograph.co.za" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"><zoltans@geograph.co.za></a> wrote:
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<pre>Hi Devs,
Sorted!
The correct folder(s) were: -with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2
(Had to add the freetype include folder as well)
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<pre>Glad you solved it.
BTW, there is a wiki page with hints:
<a href="https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#Quick_instructions" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#Quick_instructions</a>
Please feel free to improve it as needed.
Best
Markus
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