[GRASS5] Re: [GRASSLIST:3695] Grass5.0.0pre4's 'make install' dies looking for dist.X/locale

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:33:27PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> [On GRASSLIST] H. Bowman wrote:
> 
> > Grass5.0.0pre4 is out apparently.
> > 
> > Kudos to all. Time to beat on the new shape file importers.. :)
> > The configure summary is a nice touch.
> > 
> > 
> > Configured it (with everything but NLS support), compiled it. No errors. 
> > Upon 'make install', it hums though until it gets to this:
> > 
> > test -d /usr/src/grass5source/grass5.0.0pre4/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/locale 
> > &&
> >   /bin/sh -c "cd 
> > /usr/src/grass5source/grass5.0.0pre4/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu ;
> >   tar cBf - locale | (cd /usr/local/grass5 ; tar xBf - ) 2>/dev/null ; 
> > true"
> > make[1]: *** [real-install] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/grass5source/grass5.0.0pre4'
> > make: *** [install] Error 2
> > 
> > 
> > Trouble is, there is no ./dist.X/locale directory.
> 
> We need to release an update. This bug is probably going to bite
> *most* users, as NLS is disabled by default. The net result is that
> the following section of the "install" target won't get executed:
> 
> 	${SHELL} -c "cd ${GISBASE} ; tar cBf - man | (cd ${INST_DIR} ; tar xBf - ) 2>/dev/null ; true"
> 	${SHELL} -c "cd ${GISBASE} ; tar cBf - include | (cd ${INST_DIR} ; tar xBf - ) 2>/dev/null ; true"
> 	${SHELL} -c "cd ${GISBASE} ; tar cBf - lib | (cd ${INST_DIR} ; tar xBf - ) 2>/dev/null ; true"
> 	${SHELL} -c "$(INSTALL) ${GISBASE}/dev/create_fifos.sh ${INST_DIR}/dev ; true"
> 	if [ ${XDRIVER} = fifo ] ; then \
> 		${SHELL} -c "${SHELL} ${SRCDIR}/src/scripts/shells/create_fifos.sh ${INST_DIR} 2>/dev/null ; true"; \
> 	fi
> 	${SHELL} -c "sed 's#'${GISBASE}'#'${INST_DIR}'#g' ${GISBASE}/etc/monitorcap > ${INST_DIR}/etc/monitorcap ; true"
> 	${SHELL} -c "chmod -R 1777 ${INST_DIR}/locks 2>/dev/null ; true"
> 	${SHELL} -c "chmod -R a+rX ${INST_DIR} 2>/dev/null ; true"
> 
> The bit regarding monitorcap and the final chmod could be critical.

Let's go for the update. I can do that (welcome pre5).
Glynn, could you check if we can use the pre4 branch? It should
be still in a good condition.

Luckily there are no binaries posted yet (hi Andreas, any
news on your bin-build script?).

Markus