[El] QGIS and GRASS on Scientific Linux 6

[Micha Silver]

On 03/19/2011 03:45 PM, Mathieu Baudier wrote:

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

Thanks!
> 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.
Absolutely.

> 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).

and shout if there's anything I can help with.
> 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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>> http://www.surfaces.co.il
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