[GRASS5] how to configure GRASS on Athlon64

[Stefan Paulick]

./config.guess does still report "unknown" on Athlon64 systems runnig 
SuSE9.1. 

Not only grass, grass51 and librass (all made out of CVS after a "make  
distclean"), but also with GDAL (1.2.4), ./config.guess still show 
"x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
Looks like this causes a lot of problems not when compiling but at runtime. 
For example, I get "segmentation fault" and other weird messages when 
showing the recent Slovenia examples from Helena with nviz. 

Knowing that this is a bug with very low priority, I would kindly like to 
ask for some advice: 

1) Should I install generic x86 linux on a Athlon64 machine? - I do not at 
all care about maximum performance, more on a stable system. 

2) Is Athlon64 a good choice or should I go back to a 32bit CPU? I am new to 
Linux, so I do not know the pros and cons in linux system design. All I want 
is a clean, reliable running GRASS system. 

3) I use SuSE 9.1 due to the fact that the distribution and german 
documentation is pretty good and there is no Debian available for AMD64.
But I want to go for the linux distribution best suitable for GRASS, so what 
is the linux of choice for GRASS? (please drop pure technical, not political 
answers.) 

4) Is the libgrass interface still maintained and recommended for new 
development or are there some new alternatives in 5.7? I do need to build 
some kind of c-driver for a scanner device to bring 2d/3d raster data fast 
from/into GRASS in good old read/modify/write style. 

5) Finally, is here some kind of relationship tree for the packages running 
with GRASS? Especially for the configuration parameters, it would be very 
helpful to know what needs do be activated for a smooth system. 

 


Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With kindest regards 

Stefan Paulick 


http://www.urbeli.com
mailto://stefan.paulick@urbeli.com
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