[GRASS5] release branch testers wanted (tarball provided)

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Stephan,

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 08:17:41AM +0200, Stephan Holl wrote:
> At Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:05:49 +0200 Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hello Markus
> > The result is the common tarball with install script.
> > It runs fully automated.
> > 
> > So I would like to know if someone could test this tarball:
> > 
> > http://mpa.itc.it/markus/tmp/grass5_i686-pc-linux-gnu_install.sh
> > http://mpa.itc.it/markus/tmp/grass5.0.0_test_RB20020822_i686-pc-linux-gnu_bin.tar.gz
> > 36695777 bytes, Release branch from today, 22 Aug 2002.
> 
> The installation procedure finishes without any errors, but I could not
> start until I set the correct $GISBASE in $DESTDIR/grass5. It pointed to
> /tmp/grass5bin_cvsTMP/grass5. also the file $BINDIR/grass$NAME_VER was
> empty. I am using debian testing on amd athlon

this is strange. The default settings should be
NAME_VER=5
BINDIR=/usr/local/bin
DESTDIR=/usr/local/grass$NAME_VER

as defined at top of the script. There *is* defined
/tmp/grass5bin_cvsTMP/grass5 on top of the script, but that's not
used.

> Perhaps I should say, that I changed the variable $NAME_VER from
> NAME_VER=5 to NAME_VER=5_stable in grass5_i686-pc-linux-gnu_install.sh
> in order to keep my running GRASS installation clean and working ;-)

Should not be neccessary, since there is a test if /usr/local/grass5 already
exists.

> But after cleaning up this difficulties I could launch GRASS as usual.
> - tcltkgrass works
> - db.* modules work
> - d.*.pg work
good.

> - nviz does _not_ launch -> it says that something relating to wish
> couldn't be found, but my usuall GRASS_intallation can start nviz
> without probs.
Strange again. Could you please cp/paste the error message?
 
> perhaps I should try to build on my maschine?
This will certainly work. But we have to test, if such builds run
on a different machine. I have Redhat 7.x (how to find out?)

Linux thuille 2.4.9-31smp #1 SMP Tue Feb 26 06:55:00 EST 2002 i686 unknown

with a lot of locally updated libs which may cause compatibility problems.
Next I'll try my script on grass.itc.it with standard libs.

Thanks again for testing.
I also found that I have to implement gdal compilation into my build-script.

Markus