[GRASS-dev] 7.svn fails to build from source

[Michael Barton]

On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:58 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> I don't think it can - it needs Wxwidgets.  It's a wxwidgets problem,
> so we can only work around it if/until wxwidgets is ever fixed (if
> that's even possible).

I meant rewrite this into wxPython so that this is no longer a  
problem. Building on work by Glynn, I did a TclTk replacement for  
xganim awhile back.

Michael

>
> Currently nviz and vdigit "avoid" this by a work around.
>
> On Jul 20, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
>
>> Maybe xganim needs to be changed to avoid this?
>>
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>> On Jul 20, 2009, at 9:05 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>
>>> I updated the makefile to strip 64bit flags on OSX.  But I found
>>> another problem: it uses WXWIDGETSLIB for linking (it's only
>>> wxwidgets, not wxpython), and it includes universal flags,
>>> independently of however GRASS is configured.
>>>
>>> I've been compiling GRASS 7 with -arch i386 -arch x86_64, skipping
>>> PPC, and I'm sure many people will just opt for a "native" build
>>> (i386
>>> or ppc).  So, the sources compile i386 (stripped of x86_64), but  
>>> then
>>> tries to link i386 + ppc because of WXWIDGETSLIB.
>>>
>>> Nothing I can do about this, it's really a wxwidgets config bug.
>>> arch
>>> flags should not be a part of link flags, and the arch flags don't
>>> even appear in WXWIDGETSCXXFLAGS or WXWIDGETSCPPFLAGS where they
>>> should be.
>>>
>>> The workaround is to make sure to configure GRASS universal.
>>>
>>> WXWIDGETSLIB doesn't affect the wxpython modules, nviz and vdigit,
>>> wince they use a setup.py (where I have WXWIDGETSLIB ignored for  
>>> OSX,
>>> though I'm not sure this is the right way).
>>>
>>> Maybe I can strip the arch flags out of WXWIDGETSLIB...
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