[GRASS5] grass 5.0.3 in debian

[Hamish]

> > > > > the GRASS 5.0.3 package has been submitted to debian.

And it is now in Debian/testing and slated for the next Debian release!
Congratulations and thanks to Federico and Francesco!

"apt-get install grass"


> > > > A couple of points about the new Debian package..
> > [I just installed it on a fresh machine]
> 
> > > > - after changing to tcl/tk 8.4, does NVIZ still work??? could
> > > > someone check?
> > > > >  Build against tcl/tk 8.4 (Closes: #206844).
> > > > for possible fix, see 
> > > >  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/2036/
> > > > ??
> > > > maybe fixed in the latest tcl/tk packages?
> > > 
> > > To be verified.
> > 
> > Nope, it doesn't work here.. same segfault.
> > Putting -lpthreads in 
> >    src.contrib/GMSL/NVIZ2.2/src/Gmakefile  's  XTRA_LDFLAGS 
> > doesn't fix it anymore either. Maybe somewhere else?
> > 

> > Compiling against Tcl/Tk 8.3 does work however.

> 
> Do you have both 8.3 and 8.4 on the same machine? If so, are you sure
> that the headers, the link-time libraries and the run-time libraries
> are all the same version?


I think I started out with only 8.4, but don't trust that.

Currently, I have the following installed:
tcl8.3                                          install
tcl8.3-dev                                      install
tcl8.4                                          install
tcl8.4-dev                                      install
tk8.3                                           install
tk8.3-dev                                       install
tk8.4          

tk8.3-dev conflicts with tk8.4-dev so the latter is removed.
GRASS compiles and NVIZ works.


After removing *8.3* packages from the system, the grass.deb package
still fails.

I'll have to check on which 'wish' is used, but I wouldn't think this
is accessed during building? And removing 'tk8.3' should fix it then,
but doesn't.

[then, after installing tk8.4-dev]
Building 5.0.3 from source, GRASS builds ok and NVIZ still fails.
Building 5.3-cvs from source, GRASS builds ok and NVIZ still fails.

 
> FWIW, does Debian include the version number (e.g. libtk8.3.so) or
> does it use libtk.so.0?

Everything is versioned. The file 'libtk.so.0' doesn't exist in the
Debian archive- not sure if that covers symlinks though.

/usr/lib/libtcl8.4.a
/usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so@ -> libtcl8.4.so.0
/usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
/usr/lib/libtclstub8.4.a
/usr/lib/tcl8.4/[many]
/usr/include/tcl8.4/[many]

/usr/lib/libtk8.4.a
/usr/lib/libtk8.4.so@ -> libtk8.4.so.0
/usr/lib/libtk8.4.so.0
/usr/lib/libtkstub8.4.a
/usr/lib/tk8.4/[many]

/usr/bin/wish8.4
/usr/bin/wish@ -> /etc/alternatives/wish@ -> /usr/bin/wish8.4

(8.3 is along the same lines)

:( good idea though.


Hamish