[GRASS5] update on grass5.7 installation

[Markus Neteler]

Michael,

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:34:04PM +0100, Michael Barton wrote:
> This is a note primarily for Marcus, who has been kind enough to 
> provide resources for testing GRASS 5.7 under Mac OSX. However, if 
> anyone else is trying this out, it may be helpful. 
> 
> Yesterday was the first time I had a chance to try out the binary file 
> and library installation procedures on a "pristine" Mac (without all 
> the junk I've accumulated on mine). There are a few problems with the 
> library installations. 
> 
> 1) In the installation instructions, it says to install the Proj4 
> binaries by typing 
> 
> tar cvfz proj-4.4.7cvs-macosx_bin.tar.gz  
> 
> It ought to be  
> 
> tar xvfz proj-4.4.7cvs-macosx_bin.tar.gz  

oops. Fixed.
 
> 2) The proj4 installation still doesn't copy the critical library 
> libproj.dylib to the /usr/loca/lib folder. I had to do so manually. 
> GRASS 5.7 will not start up without this library 

This should work, but I have added a note.
 
> 3) GRASS 5.7 currently requires the GDAL library libgdal.1.1.dylib to 
> start up. However, the new GDAL binaries provided by Marcus are version 
> 1.1.9. There is no libdgdal.1.1.dylib in the files  extracted from the 
> *.bin.gz. However, I made a link named libgdal.1.1.dylib directed at 
> libgdal.1.1.9.dylib and GRASS opened and seems to work fine. To avoid 
> this probelm in the future, I suggest that GRASS 5.7 look for the 
> libgdal.dylib link file that comes with the library and links to  
> whatever the newest version of the library  is, rather than looking for 
> the specific library.  

Also added a note to the web page.

Note:
Soonish the MacOSX stuff will be hosted on another site and maintained by
another person (at least I hope so).

Thanks for your comments

 Markus