[GRASS5] New makefiles - work in progress, take 'em for a spin

[Eric Mitchell]

Justin Hickey wrote:
> 
> Hello Eric
> 
> I was looking into running your Makefiles on our SGI and your instructions to
> change a few variables at the end of Platform.make say I need to provide
> something for the RANLIB variable. SGI does not have ranlib and the LIBRULE in
> our head file is:
> 
> LIBRULE             = ar ruv $@ $?; : $@
> 
> as opposed to your LIBRULE which is:
> 
> LIBRULE             = ar ruv $@ $?; ranlib $@
> 
> I have no idea what ranlib does or what the equivalent command on SGI would be.
> Do you have any ideas as to what I should set RANLIB to? Should I leave it
> blank? It appears that the LIBRULE does not replace it with anything.

ranlib restructures the library for more efficient random 
access.  "RANLIB = true" should do the trick for platforms 
that don't have/require ranlib.

> Also, why can't GRASS_HOME be GISBASE?

Work in progress taken from other project that uses NAME_HOME
instead of NAMEBASE.  The GRASS_HOME references should be changed
to GISBASE.

> Sincerely,
> 
> Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey)  e-mail: jhickey at hpcc.nectec.or.th

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