[GRASS5] most recent snapshot

[Roger Miller]

Folks,

I dowloaded and compiled the most recent snapshot (March 22)  and thought I'd 
report.  First, the changes to the monitor setup are a great improvement over 
pre2.  I can now once more run GRASS monitors over a slow link.

It was also pretty easy to set up my resource manager in the new 
installation.   There were changes in the monitor setup that required that I 
discard my modified version of stop.c (in the d.mon package) and modify the 
new code.  Glynn gave that code a much-needed cleanup since pre2 and my 
modifications (a two-line addition) went very easily.

Somewhat to my suprise, moving the socket files to /tmp/grass-$USER caused no 
problem.  I just didn't use the defines that I previously needed to place the 
socket files in $HOME/grass.

I had three packages that did not compile.  NVIZ2.2 didn't compile.  The 
reasons were rather complicated but all seemed related to the make system 
rather than to the code itself.  s.surf.rst did not compile because it 
couldn't find "glocale.h.".  That file doesn'.t exist anywhere in the 
snapshot (or in the pre2 release)  so it appears to be a problem with the 
code.  r.mapcalc also didn't compile.  The problem appears to be that some 
files that should have been previously deleted (lex.yy.c and y.tab.c, maybe 
others) were not.  This could be a make problem, but it also may have been 
caused by my procedure.

The whole procedure probably took 4 hours.  Some of that time was spent 
making sure my resource manager worked.  Tracking down the problems with the 
three modules that didn't compile took some time as well.  It took a 
disappointingly large amount of time to figure out which options I had to 
specify to get everything to compile.  In particular, I found that I had to 
specify the location of the postgres includes even though (as I recall) they 
are installed to the default location for postgres 
("/usr/local/pgsql/include").


Roger Miller