[GRASS-user] Re: Installing r.area

[Glynn Clements]

LeeDaniel wrote:

> > wrong path (.../BUILD/... is wrong and needs to be /opt/...).
> > 
> > Or you do it yourself... AFAIK, it is in your case in
> > /opt/grass/include/Make/Platform.make 
> 
> Alright, I think I understood what to do.  I edited
> /opt/grass/include/Make/Platform.make (made a backup) and changed these two
> lines from:
> # GRASS dirs
> GRASS_HOME          = /usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6
> RUN_GISBASE         =
> /usr/src/packages/BUILD/grass-6.4.0RC6/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> to:
> # GRASS dirs
> GRASS_HOME          = /opt/grass
> RUN_GISBASE         = /opt/grass/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu

GRASS_HOME is the location of the GRASS source tree. If you don't have
the GRASS source tree, it should be unset.

Its value is used to initialise a few other variables, which need to
be changed when building without the source tree:

	ARCH_DISTDIR	= $(GRASS_HOME)/dist.$(ARCH)
	ARCH_BINDIR     = $(GRASS_HOME)/bin.$(ARCH)
	ERRORLOG        = $(GRASS_HOME)/error.log

If you're building against an installed version, ARCH_DISTDIR should
be set to the installation directory (e.g. /usr/local/grass-6.4.0RC6),
ARCH_BINDIR shouldn't matter, and ERRORLOG can be set to any absolute
filename.

Also, you need to override MODULE_TOPDIR on the command line, e.g.:

	make MODULE_TOPDIR=/usr/local/grass-6.4.0RC6

This is used to locate the *.make files, so setting in those files
won't work.

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