[El] QGIS and GRASS on Scientific Linux 6

[Micha Silver]

Hi Mathieu and others:

I've completed compiling both GRASS and QGIS on a new SL-6.0 
installation. It went fairly smoothly using only the EPEL repo. Only a 
few minor glitches. So I'd guess that the way forward to RPMs should be 
open.


Here's what I encountered:

For GRASS the only include files that weren't found by ./configure was 
freetype2 since it's in a subdir of /usr/include. I got all of the 
requirements (build tools, spatial libs, python etc) using yum. Then a 
straightforward ./configure line got the Makefile setup and make && sudo 
make install went fine.


For QGIS (1.7 from svn) I found one QT library missing: QTWebkit. I got 
that separately from ATrpms. Perhaps this is a package that el-gis 
should offer? Running cmake, the script did not find the gdal libs since 
this was a 64 bit system. I needed to add to cmake: 
-DGDAL_LIBRARY:STRING=/usr/lib64/libgdal.so

(maybe I should report that to qgis-devs?)


Then cmake finished cleaning, finding all dependencies and the build 
went fine.


My full notes are here:

http://www.surfaces.co.il/?p=880


Regards,

Micha


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Micha Silver
Arava Development Co. +972-52-3665918
http://www.surfaces.co.il