[GRASS5] GRASS 5.7.0 beta1

[Paul Kelly]

On Mon, 31 May 2004, Radim Blazek wrote:

> I would appreciate if volunteers could try to
> ./configure (without --with-grass50 but with --with-postgres if possible)
> make
> make bindist
> install binary package
> start grass57 installed from the binary package

Worked OK compiling on an IRIX 6.2 system and installing on IRIX 6.4.
Configure line was
  CFLAGS="-O" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure --with-libs=/usr/local/lib 
--with-includes=/usr/local/include --with-dbm=no --with-odbc=no
--with-postgres=no --with-fftw=yes --with-motif=yes --with-blas=yes
--with-cxx=no --with-opendwg
--with-opendwg-includes=/indigo-disk2/grass/opendwg/toolkit 
--with-opendwg-libs=/indigo-disk2/grass/opendwg/toolkit
and the only modification required before running make was the usual one 
of commenting out the HAVE_KEYPAD line in include/config.h so it will work 
with the (buggy) IRIX Winterm.

After installing the message reported

Installation finished. Start GRASS 5.7.0-mips-sgi-irix6.2-01_06_2004 with
     /usr/local/bin/grass-5.7.0-mips-sgi-irix6.2-01_06_2004

which is kind of off-putting! Especially as all that needed to be typed 
was grass57.

One another annoyance is that all the monitors closed down when exiting. 
Is this a new feature? I usually just leave monitors running permanently 
and if just exiting and restarting quickly to change location this could 
become annoying.

But overall looking good. Very small package and quick to install as 
well.

Paul