[Ubuntu] Re: problem building GRASS add-ons

[Taylor Hermes]

I must have omitted from my notes how to actually install this module.
 Could you step me through that please?


2010/10/1 Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>:
> Taylor wrote:
>> Looks like I made it as far as the
>> manual building, when it failed:
>
> yup
>
>> make htmlcmd
> ...
>> sh: Can't open
>> /build/buildd/grass-6.4.0~rc6/tools/g.html2man/g.html2man
>
> two things are wrong here:
> - the grass-dev package is not shipping the g.html2man tool.
>  (see https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1180#comment:5 )
> - GRASS_HOME in grass-6.4.0~rc6/include/Make is set as the build-
>  machine's working dir, not the final installed working dir.
>  ie /build/buildd/ doesn't exist for you, only on the build
>  server.  (see above ticket, comments 3 and 4)
>
> thanks for posting the debugging output. it looks like this may
> soon finally begin to work as intended without forcing users to
> make obscure contortions!
>
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>> How do I confirm that the module compiled?
>
> if not using g.extension: got another command line override for
> you:
>  make ... INST_DIR=/usr/lib/grass64
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> you may need sudo to write to that dir.
>
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> if using g.extension: It builds, but because the latter bit of
> `make` failed the script immediately deletes the incomplete
> results. You'd have to edit the script to bypass the "cleanup"
> step, and then look in $MAPSET/.tmp/ for the results before you
> exited or restarted GRASS (.tmp/ gets flushed on startup & exit).
>
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> Hamish
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