[GRASS-dev] Re: Issues with advanced viewshed analysis on Mac

[Benjamin Ducke]

Michael, everyone,

The solution I think is to test the original GRASS configure script
on a system that does not meet any of the optional dependencies
and make sure that it does not fail on such a system, but rather
switch off compilation of modules that depend on optional stuff.

This version of the configure script should then go into
GRASS CVS and all extensions.

Unfortunately, I have no experience with the configure syntax.
But I would probably be able to find a very basic Linux setup
to test a minimal configuration on.

Maybe someone else could help with it?

Best,

Benjamin

Michael Barton wrote:
> So what's the solution? Is there one?
> 
> Michael
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>>From: Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de>
>>Organization: CAU
>>Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:36:26 +0200
>>To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>, GRASS devel
>><grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
>>Subject: Re: Issues with advanced viewshed analysis on Mac
>>
>>Michael,
>>
>>this is to do with the fact that I recently updated
>>the configure script that ships with all extensions
>>to the latest version from GRASS cvs.
>>Unfortunately, this script obviously fails if certain
>>* optional * dependencies are not met.
>>I think rather than me trying to fix this in the extension
>>configure scripts, we should fix it for the global
>>GRASS cvs configure script. I don't think configuring
>>should fail for anything optional, including postgresql.
>>
>>Best,
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 

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