[GRASS5] [bug #748] (grass) horrible instructions

Markus Neteler neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de
Tue Jun 12 13:46:57 EDT 2001


Dave,

thanks for your updates. I have updated in CVS and on Hannover web site.

Markus

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:20:54PM +0200, Request Tracker wrote:
> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=748
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> at ftp://grass.baylor.edu/pub/grass/grass5/binary/linux/ is a file 
> titled  REQUIREMENTS.html. This file is a mess. Attached is a revised 
> version that is more legible and which has live links.
> 
> Dave Stevens
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> Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="grass.html"
> 
> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
> <html>
> <head>
>    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
>    <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.74 [en] (Win98; U) [Netscape]">
>    <title>REQUIREMENTS to compile GRASS GIS</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> REQUIREMENTS to compile GRASS GIS
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>A workstation running some flavor of unix like Solaris, Irix,
> <p>Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, CygWindows.&nbsp; Ideally, you should have at
> <p>least 500 Mb for data and 32 Mb RAM. The source code package needs
> <p>around 100MB uncompressed. The resulting binaries may need between
> <p>80MB and 180MB depending on your platform.
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>General requirements:
> <p>(most tools are standard tools on Linux, for other platforms you
> <p>&nbsp;may have to install some of them.)
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- C-compiler (cc, gcc, egcs, ...)
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; gcc: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html</a>
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- Fortran compiler (f77, g77, ...) for a few modules
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; g77: coming along with gcc
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- GNU make is recommended
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html</a>
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- zlib compression library (already installed on modern systems)
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp; It is used to compress GRASS raster files:
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; libz: <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/">http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/</a>
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip/zlib/">ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip/zlib/</a>
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- lexical analyzer generator (flex),
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp; (lex is no longer supported, please use flex instead)
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; flex: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html</a>
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- parser generator (yacc, bison)
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; bison: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html</a>
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- libncurses4.x/5.x
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html</a>
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/">ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/</a>
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- X11 window system for graphical output, development libraries
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp; (X development libraries, in some linux distributions
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; they are separate packages)
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.xfree.org">&nbsp;&nbsp; http://www.xfree.org</a><a href="http://www.xfree.org"></a>
> <p>&nbsp;
> <p>Optional requirements:
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- Tcl/Tk 8.x libraries to use TclTkGRASS Interface
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and to compile src.contrib/GMSL/NVIZ2.2/
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; see [<a href="http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/main_tclgrass.html">http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/main_tclgrass.html</a>]
> <p>&nbsp;- Mesa-3.x (openGL clone) required for NVIZ2.2
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<a href="http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/">http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/</a>]
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Compile instructions:
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<a href="http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/grass5/related/README.mesa3d">http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/grass5/related/README.mesa3d</a>]
> <p>&nbsp;- libpng (for r.in.png, r.out.png), usually already installed.
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<a href="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/png/">ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/png/</a>]
> <p>&nbsp;- libjpeg (for r.in.tiff, r.out.tiff, for HDF library),
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp; usually already installed.
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<a href="ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/">ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/</a>]
> <p>&nbsp;- libtiff (for r.in.tiff, r.out.tiff), usually already installed.
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<a href="http://www.libtiff.org">http://www.libtiff.org</a>]
> <p>&nbsp;- netpbm-tools/libraries (for r.in.png/r.out.png), usually already
> installed.
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [please look at any decent software mirror
> near you!]
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<a href="http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/graphics/graphics/packages/NetPBM">http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/graphics/graphics/packages/NetPBM</a>]
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/netpbm/">http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/netpbm/</a>]
> <p>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- libg2c (for r.fill.dir, or use g77)
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [http://?]
> <p>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- PostgreSQL libraries (for the PostgreSQL database interface)
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<a href="http://www.postgresql.org">http://www.postgresql.org</a>]
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- Unix ODBC (for the ODBC database interface)
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<a href="http://www.unixodbc.org">http://www.unixodbc.org</a>]
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- R language (for the R language interface)
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<a href="http://cran.r-project.org">http://cran.r-project.org</a>]
> <p>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- usually not required (as you will use NVIZ)
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Motif or Lesstif libraries required for
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; src.contrib/GMSL/ogl3d
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<a href="http://www.lesstif.org">http://www.lesstif.org</a>]
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;- r.in.gdal requires GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [<a href="http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/">http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/</a>]
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>Note:
> <p>&nbsp;SUN users may go here to download precompiled libraries etc.:
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">http://www.sunfreeware.com/</a>
> <p>&nbsp;
> <p>&nbsp;SGI users may go here to download precompiled libraries etc.:
> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://freeware.sgi.com/">http://freeware.sgi.com/</a>
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>GRASS Development Team 2001
> <p>grass at baylor.edu
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> <p>$Id: REQUIREMENTS,v 1.10.2.1 2001/04/18 10:46:30 markus Exp $
> <br>&nbsp;
> <br>&nbsp;
> </body>
> </html>
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