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

[Vaclav Petras]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 10:41 PM, Pierre Roudier <pierre.roudier at gmail.com>
wrote:

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

You are welcome.


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

The patch is for geoPAT, but I tested the subsequent compilation of geoPAT
only against compiled GRASS (which is not `make install`ed).


>
> 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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