[GRASS-dev] Re: locale Makefile backport

[Markus Neteler]

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On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> would it be safe to do:
>>
>> [neteler at markus grass70]$ cp locale/Makefile ~/grass64/locale/Makefile
>> [neteler at markus grass70]$ cp include/Make/Other.make ~/grass64/include/Make/
>> [neteler at markus grass70]$ cp include/Make/Vars.make ~/grass64/include/Make/
>>
>> Seems to work here but maybe there are side effects?
>
> It should be safe for just locale/Makefile, as that's largely
> insulated from most of the build system (i.e. it doesn't perform any
> compilation or linking).
>
> Although, I would be inclined to omit Other.make and Vars.make, and
> just have locale/Makefile include Grass.make and Platform.make
> directly (it shouldn't need any of the others).

I see. I have backported it now with your suggestion.

> OTOH, 6.4 is likely to be around for a while, so it may be better to
> just backport all of the build-system related changes.

I would be glad to see that but I won't be able to judge which
are the relevant changes. Err, would you mind, this time...?

thanks
Markus