[GRASS5] fifos not created

[GRASS]

>From neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de Mon Feb  5 19:09:14 2001
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:27:24PM +0900, GRASS wrote:
> > From: "Eric G . Miller" <egm2 at jps.net>
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 09:40:32PM -0800, Jeshua Lacock wrote:
> > > > OK, So I downloaded beta 11 and deleted the old, did a "make
> > > > distclean" and so on.  And  after it compiles I tried to start a
> > > > monitor and I get the message;
> > > > 
> > > >   GRASS 5.0beta11 > d.mon start=x0 Sorry,
> > > >   </usr/local/grass5/dev/fifo.1a> not available Have GRASS
> > > >   adminstrator check etc/monitorcap file Can't stat
> > > >   /usr/local/grass5/dev/fifo.1a Problem selecting x0. Will try once
> > > >   more Can't stat /usr/local/grass5/dev/fifo.1a
> > > > 
> > > > So I tried to inspect the fifo and found that there is no dev
> > > > directory.  Instead there is a dev script.  I tired moving the script
> > > > and running it and it creates the fifo's but then I still get the same
> > > > message.
> > > > 
> > > > It seems odd to me.  Beta 11 pre2 did not do this.
> > > > 
> > > > The only difference between this build and pre2 is one there are new
> > > > sources I downloaded today and two I am now running Xfree86 4.02 with
> > > > the Aqua patch, but I do not suspect two as being the problem.
> > > 
> > > Something got puckered, not sure if it's fixed yet in CVS, but it has
> > > something to do with the README.ipc thingy.  Anyway,
> > > 
> > > #! /bin/sh
> > > for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ; do 
> > > 	mkfifo -m 0666 "fifo.""$i""a"
> > > 	mkfifo -m 0666 "fifo.""$i""b"
> > > done
> > > 
> > > If you don't have mkfifo, use 'mknod -m 0666 "fifo.""$i""a" p'
> > > 
> > > You could also try running ./configure --with-fifo explicitly...
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I fixed Makefile.in and README.ipc to create "dev" directory before copying
> > anything into this directory.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Huidae Cho
>
> Hi Huidae,
>
> shall I release an updated source code package (the binaries are not
> affected if using your patch!)?
>

It's not a big change, so i think it's better to announce how to fix this
install problem. Just get new Makefile.in and README.ipc and rerun make.
That's all.

Yours,
Huidae Cho

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