[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.4.2RC1 planning

[Glynn Clements]

Hamish wrote:

> the main thing I'd like to see get done before rc1 is an answer on 
> the double call to $(MAKE) if INST_NOW=y is passed to Grass.make.
> 
> AFAICT that's the only thing left blocking g.extension[.sh] from finally
> working with the Ubuntu & Debian packages by users without the full
> source tree installed.
> 
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/include/Make/Grass.make.in#L388
> 
> (the first time $(MAKE) is called the module is successfully created in
> the $MAPSET/.tmp/ dirs. but then it tries to run $(MAKE) again a second
> time, but put things in the install dir where the user doesn't have write
> permission)

So don't set INST_NOW=y; just set ARCH_DISTDIR explicitly. Or if, for
some reason, you must use INST_NOW=y, set ARCH_INSTDIR to the desired
installation directory.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>