[GRASS5] gmake in binary distribution

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Moritz,

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 02:05:43PM +0200, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Would it make sense (and be possible) to include gmake and gmakelinks in
> the binary distribution ? Example: I just installed the release binaries
> from Markus, but they do not contain the PNG driver.

really?

tar tvfz grass5.0.0_test_RB20020822_i686-pc-linux-gnu_bin.tar.gz |grep PNG
-rwxr-xr-x neteler/ssi  117404 2002-08-22 13:51:36 driver/PNG

It is there.

> If I want to compile
> the driver, witthout having to compile all of GRASS would it be possible ?

You need all required libraries:
in this case
$(DRIVERLIB) $(GISLIB)
and $(GISLIB) requires $(DATETIMELIB) and maybe more. So you needed
a large portion of the code (also the make mechanism etc).
This will be feasible when we split up the code base into packages
on day (GRASS-core, GRASS-base etc).

Markus