[GRASS5] Solaris, GRASS 5.1, and Proj

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:43:01PM +0100, Paul Kelly wrote:
> Hello
> 
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Wallace, Beverly T wrote:
> 
> > Hi Grass Developers,
> >
> > I am trying to build the experimental GRASS 5.1.
> >
> > I downloaded the 2003_09_06 snapshots for 5.0 and 5.1.
> > I successfully built 5.0.
> > I am using a Sun with Solaris 9, gcc version 2.95.3, and GNU make.
> > I used configure --with-motif --without-postgres --without-odbc --without-fftw --without_gdal.
> >
> > (1)  When I tried to configure with proj, configure failed while trying to find proj_api.h.  But proj_api.h does not exist in either snapshot.  So I added --without_proj to the configure.
> 
> You need to have an external PROJ library from remotesensing.org
> installed, version 4.4.6 or later. GRASS 5.7 (as it is now) does not
> include the internal copy of PROJ any more so an external PROJ is an
> absolute requirement. This should probably be documented somewhere; I'm
> not familiar with all the 5.1/5.7 documentation and am not sure where is
> the best place; can you suggest a file this information could be added to?

It should go into INSTALL.

But ./configure should stop with an error when
--without_proj
is used. Then the situation were clear.

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Markus