[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.1.0 release preparation

[Benjamin Ducke]

The plan is:
Extension authors should provide a list of external dependencies
that must be satisfied.
GEM could then check if the GRASS installation satisfies these
and at least issue a warning if not.

Benjamin

Michael Barton wrote:
> Benjamin,
> 
> I don't think this would work for precompiled binaries. They may be
> installed on a system that doesn't have some of the dependencies. For
> example, you can compile with MySQL support and then put GRASS on a system
> without MySQL.
> 
> Michael
> __________________________________________
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> School of Human Evolution & Social Change
> Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
> Arizona State University
> 
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> 
> 
> 
>>From: Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de>
>>Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 10:20:56 +0200
>>Cc: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
>>Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.1.0 release preparation
>>
>>I have one request concerning the GRASS configure script:
>>would it be possible for configure to write a small one-line
>>ASCII file into GISBASE/etc after a successful configuration,
>>which contains all the options that the user passed to the
>>configure script?
>>
>>Having such a file in a standard location would make it
>>much easier to compile external modules with exactly the
>>same external dependencies as the GRASS system installation.
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Benjamin
>>
>>Markus Neteler wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:26:16AM -0400, Helena Mitasova wrote:
>>>...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Some modules have problems running on 64bit (maybe that is also
>>>>#4725?
>>>
>>>
>>>The nviz volume bug was recently introduces, I think. As far
>>>as I remember it worked some time ago on 64bit.
>>>
>>>https://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=4725
>>>" 
>>>  I followed "mode" into lib/ogsf/GVL2.c GVL_slice_get_drawmode()
>>>  and then *gvl to gvl_get_vol() in lib/ogsf/gvl.c, but then I get lost.
>>>"
>>>
>>>?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>but it is for sure #4546
>>>
>>>
>>>https://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=4546
>>>r.sim.water crashes in simlib/input.c line 403, function grad_check():
>>>
>>> if (cchez[k][l] != 0.) {
>>>
>>>   with k=700 and l=0
>>>
>>>Not sure why.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>and supposedly also r.sun - probably due to uninitialized
>>>>variables).
>>>
>>>
>>>Right, It crashes in INPUT () at main.c:656
>>>              if (z[i][j] == UNDEFZ || o[i][j] == UNDEFZ || s[i][j] ==
>>>UNDEFZ)
>>>
>>>Here a Spearfish test script:
>>>
>>>ELEV=elevation.dem
>>>TMP=$$
>>>SLOPE=$TMP.slope
>>>ASP=$TMP.aspect
>>>r.slope.aspect elevation.dem as=$TMP.aspect sl=$TMP.slope --o
>>>r.mapcalc global_shadow.rad=0
>>>DAY=055
>>>r.sun -s elevin=elevation.dem aspin=$TMP.aspect slopein=$TMP.slope day=$DAY \
>>>      beam_rad=bs_rad.$DAY diff_rad=ds_rad.$DAY refl_rad=rs_rad.$DAY
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I don't think that this should stop the release.
>>>
>>>
>>>I would appreciate if those two bugs would be fixed, but we
>>>can backport the fixes later.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Also I believe that we should thoroughly test gis.m before release -
>>>>we were getting all kinds of error messages but I think that it all
>>>>has been fixed by now.
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes, gis.m should get a consolidation cycle now.
>>>
>>>Markus
>>> 
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>-- 
>>Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
>>Archäoinformatik
>>(Archaeoinformation Science)
>>Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
>>(Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology)
>>Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
>>Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6
>>D 24098 Kiel
>>Germany
>>
>>Tel.: ++49 (0)431 880-3378 / -3379
>>Fax : ++49 (0)431 880-7300
>>www.uni-kiel.de/ufg
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
Archäoinformatik
(Archaeoinformation Science)
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
(Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6
D 24098 Kiel
Germany

Tel.: ++49 (0)431 880-3378 / -3379
Fax : ++49 (0)431 880-7300
www.uni-kiel.de/ufg