Compiling Grass 5.0

[Michel Wurtz - LTE]

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Michel Wurtz    ENGEES - Laboratoire Territoires & Environnement
                1, quai Koch - BP 1039, F-67070 STRASBOURG cedex
                Tel: +33 03.88.24.82.45  Fax: +33 03.88.37.04.97
I just finished to compile grass5.0 on linux.  Here are some remarks
about the process...

All references are made relative to the main dir of installation
(grass5.0beta).

INSTALL (in . and in src/CMD) refers to "GISGEN", but the program
has the name "COMPILE".

GISGEN fails in src/mapdev/v.digspline because an error in
src/mapdev/v.digspline/Gmakefile, line 224 :

        if [ ! -d $(TXT)/DIGIT ]; mkdir $(TXT)/DIGIT; fi
should be
        if [ ! -d $(TXT)/DIGIT ]; then mkdir $(TXT)/DIGIT; fi

same error line 231 ("then" is missing)

the directory "CVS" in src/mapdev/v.digspline/digitizers must also
be suppressed if you don't want COMPILE to stop here...

INSTALL doc doesn't remind you to go to src/display/devices/XDRIVER
and run /..../grass5.0beta/src/CMD/gmake5.0 (absolute path mandatory)

After that, you can launch grass5.0, and it worked...

configuring, compiling and editing the whole thing (src/CMD/lists/GRASS
only + tkgrass, but no XGRASS) take me approximatively 1 hours 1/4
on a Pentium (Winchip) 225 Mhz, 32 Mo ram, while listening
KPIG on realaudio (mono only, on an old 8bits erzats of Soundblaster;
does anybody have a soundblaster 64 to give :-)))

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Michel Wurtz    ENGEES - Laboratoire Territoires & Environnement
                1, quai Koch - BP 1039, F-67070 STRASBOURG cedex
                Tel: +33 03.88.24.82.45  Fax: +33 03.88.37.04.97