[GRASS5] fifo configure

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 01:50:35AM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Wallace, Beverly T wrote:
> 
> > I recently installed GRASS 5.0.0.  I configured it for fifos and had two
> > problems:
> 
> Just out of curiosity, was there any particular reason for using
> FIFOs? Is this a system which simply doesn't support sockets, or is
> there a problem with the socket code?
> 
> > (1)  Configuring with "--enable-fifo" is not enough, "--disable-socket" is
> > also needed.  Is that how it is supposed to work?  The configure help says
> > that "--enable-fifo" will use the FIFO XDriver instead of sockets, which
> > suggests that sockets are automatically disabled.
> 
> OK; this can be fixed easily enough.
> 
> > (2)  The monitorcap file did not work until I added full paths.
> 
> This is due to:
> 
> 	date: 2002/01/04 17:04:17;  author: andreas;  state: Exp;  lines: +14 -14
> 	removed absolute paths in monitorcap file
> 
> in:
> 
> 	src/display/devices/HTMLMAP/Gmakefile
> 	src/display/devices/HTMLMAP/moncap.entry
> 	src/display/devices/PNGdriver/Gmakefile
> 	src/display/devices/PNGdriver/moncap.entry
> 	src/display/devices/monitorcap/Gmakefile
> 	src/display/devices/monitorcap/monitorcap
> 
> Andreas: was there a specific reason for this change? It won't work
> with FIFOs (and the field is ignored when using sockets).

I found this reference:
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2001-December/001441.html
http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=48&display=History

As far as I remember the reason was the possibility to
relocate the binaries.

Markus