[GRASS5] Re: [GRASSLIST:1363] Re: compiling grass57

[Paul Kelly]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Hamish wrote:

> > You have to compile GRASS 5.7 with GRASS 5.3-cvs HEAD (not release
> > branch, not official version).
>
> Is it a good idea to have the 5.7 'make mix' command check
> src/CMD/VERSION for 5.3* ? That would stop some of the questions.

Probably better for the configure script to check, and it could check for
'cvs' in the version number which should be more robust for the long term.
The following patch to configure.in seems to work:

--- configure.in.orig   Fri Sep 26 16:11:46 2003
+++ configure.in        Fri Sep 26 16:26:02 2003
@@ -35,8 +35,11 @@

 if test -d "$with_grass50"; then
     GRASS50="$with_grass50"
+    if ! grep cvs "${GRASS50}/src/CMD/VERSION" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+        AC_MSG_ERROR([*** GRASS 5.3 source directory \"$with_grass50\" does not contain CVS HEAD version.])
+    fi
 else
-    AC_MSG_ERROR([*** GRASS 5.0 source directory \"$with_grass50\" does not exist.])
+    AC_MSG_ERROR([*** GRASS 5.3 source directory \"$with_grass50\" does not exist.])
 fi

 AC_SUBST(GRASS50)

There seems to be a problem with CVS access from inside my University at
the minute (looks like another new firewall rule) so I can't commit the
change right now.

Paul