[GRASS5] Re: [GRASSLIST:4606] Re: 5.4.0 Release Candidate on solaris 9

[Gordon Keith]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:05, Hamish wrote:
> > Any idea why it has chosen the Alternate build mechanism?
>
> 5.4 was changed to do this, as shared libraries should work on all
> (most) platforms now.

from INSTALL:

The intent of the install method is to have the following sequence
of commands work to install GRASS on any platform.

        ./configure
        make
        make install

from error:

configure: error: ***  Build directory should not be the same as source 
directory for the alternate build mechanism. Create a separate build 
directory and run again, e.g. mkdir ~/grass-build; cd ~/grass-build; /usr/
src/grass/configure ... (see mk/README)

Am I missing something, or is the build process a lot harder than it should 
be?

(I'm looking at it as a pre-release for a stable version, not as a development 
version, so I'm being fussier than normal)

Regards
Gordon

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Gordon Keith
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Marine Acoustics
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