[GRASS5] Re: [Fwd: problems with compilation] - Javier

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> [short intro for grass5: Javier has a problem to compile 'gstat'
> against GRASS 5.0pre3 precompiled binaries which provide libgis.a and
> libdatetime.a in lib/ directory]

[snip]

> I tried Javier's libgis.a (as shipping with pre3 Linux binaries), and
> in fact they show above problem. My local version works fine. There
> are heavy size differences:
> 
> -rw-------    1 neteler  ssi        348600 Mar 13 11:34 libgis.a_javier
> -rw-r--r--    1 neteler  ssi       4417590 Mar 13 11:38 libgis.a
> 
> Perhaps because:
> nm libgis.a_extern | grep G_projection
> nm: adj_cellhd.o: no symbols
> nm: align_window.o: no symbols
> nm: alloc.o: no symbols
> [...]
> 
> The symbols are stripped off or whatever? It seems that we have to
> re-think the generation of libgis.a and libdatetime.a during compilation
> for the binary package ('bindist' target in Makefile) to avoid that
> problem in future. Both libraries are also needed for the GRASS/R interface
> and probably other software. It may be better to automate that than adding
> another manual sequence into the release_rules.txt file.
> 
> Suggestions are welcome (or a modification to the 'bindist' target?)

Try adding "-perm +111" to the find command in the "strip" target, so
that it only strips files with execute permission, e.g.

	${SHELL} -c "cd ${GISBASE} ; find . -type f -perm +111 -exec strip {} \; ; true"

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>