[El] QGIS and GRASS on Scientific Linux 6

[Mathieu Baudier]

Hi Micha,

yes, I had already seen your excellent post on your blog.
Thanks a lot for it and for this mail!

I have also installed SL6 on some machines and wanted precisely to
work on what you suggest.

My plan is to block a significant amount of time to work on ELGIS as
soon as CentOS 5.6 is out (hopefully very soon...) and before the
(German-speaking) FOSSGIS conference in Heidleberg where Peter and
myself will be (first week of April).

My idea is also to then start working on EL6 based on what you have
done already.
(I was also thinking to rebuild the ATRpm package into ELGIS, so I
fully agree with your idea.)

I think that you all understand, that it makes more sense for me to
group that kind of work together and take the occasion to improve the
build system, etc.

Regarding EL6, we shoudl a see if there is not an interest from EPEL
to take over these packages as well.
(which does not prevent us to start the packaging effort and hand it
over to them if there is interest).

I'll let it know on the list as soon as I start this work session
(maybe already this week).

Thanks again for your contribution!

Cheers,

Mathieu

2011/3/19 Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il>:
> 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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