[GRASS-dev] Untangling geoPAT installation when updating GRASS version

[Pierre Roudier]

Hi Vaclav, and thank you so much for your help,

Do I understand correctly that I should compile a version of GRASS to use
your patch?

Cheers,

P

On 25 February 2018 at 15:52, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> this may not address this specific problem with multiple installations,
> but it may help overall with debugging such problems because it is more
> direct. I'm attaching a geoPAT patch which deals with the names of the
> libraries and removes the need to modify GRASS source code before the
> compilation happens.
>
> The following command executed in the directory with the source code
> should be sufficient to compile modules with a self-compiled GRASS which is
> not in system:
>
> make MODULE_TOPDIR=~/.../trunk/ GRASS_VERSION_NUMBER=7.5.svn
>
> Path to the GRASS GIS installation/code/dev files and the version needs to
> be provided. This was tested with the current trunk in a home directory and
> not with GRASS installed (`make install`-ed) in the system. Nevertheless
> this removes the need to modify the source code and thus increasing
> compatibility with different GRASS versions (which change the copied and
> modified file).
>
> Besides the limited testing, there are three other issues:
>
> 1) g.extension is not able to install the code from a directory (or ZIP,
> ...) because no system for C addon modules with libraries is in place (same
> issue as with r.pi.* suite). When GRASS_VERSION_NUMBER is added to
> g.extension code and HTML for the main directory is resolved/or ignored in
> g.extension, modules at least compile, but nothing is installed (added) to
> the local addons directory.
>
> 2) I don't understand why GRASS_VERSION_NUMBER isn't already defined.
>
> 3) I don't know how to contribute to the geoPAT repository.
>
> Best,
> Vaclav
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 6:22 PM, Dylan Beaudette <
> dylan.beaudette at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How about your GRASS "development" files: installed via package
>> manager? Same version as the binaries?
>>
>> D
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Pierre Roudier
>> <pierre.roudier at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks Dylan,
>> >
>> > I did install using `sudo sh install.sh grass72` -- then `sudo sh
>> install.sh
>> > grass74` after my Grass version got updated to 7.4
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > P
>> >
>> > On 23 February 2018 at 18:41, Dylan Beaudette <
>> dylan.beaudette at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Howdy Pierre!
>> >>
>> >> In my experience, the GeoPat modules need to know where several things
>> >> are located, including (I think) parts of the GRASS source code. Have
>> >> a look through the install.sh code:
>> >>
>> >> http://sil.uc.edu/gitlist/geoPAT/blob/stable/install.sh
>> >>
>> >> I was able to get these modules up and running by invoking install.sh
>> like
>> >> this:
>> >>
>> >> sh install.sh grass75
>> >>
>> >> ... where "grass75" is the binary compiled from grass_trunk. The
>> >> install.sh code seemed to find the source code it needed and worked
>> >> without issue.
>> >>
>> >> How did you install / upgrade the Geopat modules? Could it be that
>> >> install.sh is "finding" the old source code / headers? Is there a
>> >> package for both GRASS binaries and development files?
>> >>
>> >> Dylan
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 7:28 PM, Pierre Roudier
>> >> <pierre.roudier at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > I've been compiling the geoPAT extensions for GRASS from
>> >> > http://sil.uc.edu/gitlist/geoPAT/
>> >> >
>> >> > At the time I was running GRASS 7.2.2 installed from the Ubuntu GIS
>> >> > repository, but since this repo updated to GRASS 7.4, I have the
>> >> > following
>> >> > issue:
>> >> >
>> >> > GRASS 7.4.0 (modis_lst_2015):~ > p.sig.polygons --help
>> >> > ERROR: Module built against version $Revision: 70617 $ but trying to
>> use
>> >> >        version $Revision: 70829 $. You need to rebuild GRASS GIS or
>> >> >        untangle multiple installations.
>> >> > [Raster MASK present]
>> >> >
>> >> > Any pointers about how to resolve the version tangling? I've tried
>> >> > recompiling geoPAT, but that didn't work.
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers,
>> >> >
>> >> > Pierre
>> >> >
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