[GRASS5] Making GRASS cross-compiler friendly (was: Script to build babyGRASS for handhelds)

[Carl Worth]

On Apr 30, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
 > I don't think nad2bin is executed at runtime by GRASS, but it can be
 > important that the nad2bin that is executed be one that matches the
 > architecture that will be using the output binary files.  Note that this
 > isn't just an endian issue, the produced binary files will also be useless
 > if structure packing is different on the different architectures.

Good point. This is of course true, (and likely to bite me in the x86
vs. arm case).

 > I personally think that PROJ.4 ought to work towards a new architecture
 > independent format for the grid shift files.  This really wouldn't be hard.
 > or significantly impair performance.

I agree.

-Carl