<div dir="ltr"><div>Going by <a href="https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#GRASS_GIS">https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#GRASS_GIS</a> and focusing on GRASS GIS 7 trunk:<br><br></div><div>1. Last week I did<br><pre style="font-family:monospace,Courier;color:black;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221);padding:1em;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.3em;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">svn co <a href="https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk">https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk</a> grass7_trunk</pre>On a directory under my ownership.<br><br>2. Today in that same directory I ran <br></div><div><font face="monospace,monospace">svn up</font><br></div><div><br></div><div>3. I ran the large statement which begins with<br><pre style="font-family:monospace,Courier;color:black;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221);padding:1em;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.3em;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span class="gmail-nv" style="color:rgb(25,23,124)">CFLAGS</span><span class="gmail-o" style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">=</span><span class="gmail-s2" style="color:rgb(186,33,33)">"-O2 -Wall"</span> <span class="gmail-nv" style="color:rgb(25,23,124)">LDFLAGS</span><span class="gmail-o" style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">=</span><span class="gmail-s2" style="color:rgb(186,33,33)">"-s"</span> ./configure <span class="gmail-se" style="color:rgb(187,102,34);font-weight:bold">\</span></pre>Here is where the problem is. It seems to go into an infinite loop.*<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Also note that when I run it from /usr/local/src/grass7_trunk -- where I was running it when I started this thread -- it succeeded. It did not go into the infinite loop.<br></div><div><br></div><div>* When the process starts, the first few lines read:<br><font face="monospace,monospace">./configure: 229: ./configure: Cannot fork<br>./configure: 300: ./configure: Cannot fork<br>./configure: 300: ./configure: Cannot fork</font><br></div><div><br></div><div>There is a lot more I could send but have not, including the last lines before it restarts at the top of the loop.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know what more information to five you or what changes I should make.<br><br></div><div>- Paul<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hellik@web.de" target="_blank">hellik@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Paul Schrum wrote<br>
<span class="">> I started off trying to build it in a directory under my home directory<br>
> using the instructions here<br>
</span>> <<a href="https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#Dependencies>" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://grasswiki.osgeo.<wbr>org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_<wbr>Ubuntu#Dependencies></a>;,<br>
<span class="">> but I could not get it to build. The only part of those instructions that<br>
> I was not following were the path. So I started using the paths indicated<br>
> in those instructions and then it would build. That is why my copy of the<br>
> source is where it is.<br>
><br>
> Based on yall's comments, I now think it was something other than the path<br>
> where I was storing the source code, but I have no idea what.<br>
<br>
</span>please post here your steps and error (?)/warning(?) messages of compiling.<br>
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best regards<br>
Helmut<br>
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