[GRASS5] Unofficial Grass 5.0.2 for Debian Woody available

Federico Di Gregorio fog at initd.org
Thu Jul 10 11:27:36 EDT 2003


Il gio, 2003-07-10 alle 16:58, Glynn Clements ha scritto:
[snip]
> > standard system directories?
> 
> I keep them under $GISBASE, but add $GISBASE/man to MANPATH, so that
> they are readable outside of GRASS. I normally use XEmacs for reading
> manpages, and having to use the "man" program (via g.manual) within an
> xterm would be a nuisance. The same issue would apply to reading
> manpages with Xman etc.
> 
> The manpages probably shouldn't be installed in /usr/man or
> /usr/local/man. There are so many of them, and some of them have names
> which would conflict with existing programs; e.g. GRASS has a
> "display" manpage which lists the various d.* commands, but
> ImageMagick also has a "display" program with a corresponding manpage.

this is not a problem, debian uses manpage extensions. all manpages from
grass package will have the Ngrass extension (N = 1 ..)

> Similarly, if we were to start installing a full set of libraries
> (rather than just libgis and libdatetime), either they should go into
> their own directory or they should have a prefix (i.e. libgrass_gis).
> 
> Also, for 5.1, it might be worth giving all of the GRASS headers a
> prefix directory, i.e.
> 
> 	#include <grass/gis.h>
> 
> The headers themselves could then go into /usr/include/grass without
> needing to use any -I switches (cf. the number of queries we get
> regarding --with-postgres-includes).

that would be very nice on development boxes with very cramped
/usr/include directories.

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