GRASS on IBM AIX, SCO-ODT, and Linux

[Dave Mandel]

I compiled GRASS 4.1 on SCO-ODT and IBM RS6000 for my client just after 
GRASS 4.1 became available. 

IBM RS6000
As I recall the IBM version came up quickly with little pain.  I compiled 
all of GRASS including alpha and contributed, but did not compile XGRASS 
or related.  A couple of us have used this GRASS off and on since that 
work and it has worked quite well.

SCO-ODT
I also compiled the code on SCO-ODT ver 2.0.  This was a pain and the 
resulting code is not as stable as the IBM version.  This seems to be due 
to bugs in the ODT development tools.  What I got is usable, but not as 
good as the IBM version.  I was disappointed, because I had had great 
success in bringing GRASS 4.0 up under SCO-ODT 1.1 a year earlier.  Has 
anyone tryed compiling GRASS under a newer version of ODT?  If so, has the 
situation improved?

Availability of Binaries
Since I did this work for a client I can not give out the binaries.
However, my client is a public agency and does have a formal request 
procedure for software and data.  If these binaries aren't commonly 
available it would be nice to put them on an ftp server somewhere.  

LINUX
I have been moving from ODT to Linux which I like very much.  Instead of 
recompiling the source code, I would as soon get ready to run binaries.  
Where is the best, most up to date, most complete set of Linux binaries 
for GRASS?


                                               Dave Mandel
                                               Chief Activist
                                               Portland Linux Users Group
                                               dmandel at aseTT.com