[GRASS5] 5.7: new 'fakestart' concept with demolocation

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Mon Nov 29 17:53:07 EST 2004


Markus Neteler wrote:

> > > > upon an idea of Radim I have added a small (68k) demolocation
> > > > into the 5.7 source code directory. 
> > > > The 'fakestart' session is now using this demolocation to
> > > > generate the HTML documentation (MAN docs derived from that).
> > > 
> > > AFAICT, this won't work if the user building GRASS doesn't own the
> > > source tree, due to G__mapset_permissions().
> 
> Thinking again:
> 
> Note that the demolocation is first installed into dist.$ARCH,
> then this one is used (not the one of the source code).

I've since noticed that. As the user running "make" will own the copy,
there shouldn't be a problem.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>




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