Compiling Grass 5 beta2 on Debian GNU/Linux system (potato)

[Alan Eugene Davis]

Thank you, people.  With watching over your shoulders I was able to compile 
this system!  (Sometimes your instructions were a bit hard to follow, I must
admit).  

grass5.0beta2 starts up fine.  The image in the grass seeds tutorial somehow
comes up with colors!  (Black and white in grass 4.2.1).  

Thanks much from a clueless user.

Alan 

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 01:27:05PM -0700, egm2 at jps.net wrote:
> On 31 Jul, Angus Carr wrote:
>   |  
>   |  
>   |  On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 egm2 at jps.net wrote:
>   |  > 
>   |  > Then, to get past the next error you'll encounter in file
>   |  > raster/r.binfer/symtab.c go down to the ExecuteReclass() function at
>   |  > the bottom, and changed the following lines
>   |  > 
>   |  > 257	unsigned int status;   TO     int * status;
>   |  > ...
>   |  > 263	wait(&status);		TO	wait(status);
>   |  For this one, the other (probably more correct) way is to make status into
>   |  an unsigned int, since that is what is expected by wait.
>   |  
>   |  Sending an int instead of a pointer to wait sounds like a recipe for an
>   |  exception of some sort when you run r.binfer (Which isn't a problem if you
>   |  don't do binfer...).
>   |  
>   |  Angus Carr.
>   |  
>   |  
> 
> It is sending a pointer. status is defined as a pointer.  Anyway, I
> looked it up on my documentation for libc, and the example for wait()
> defines the variable as an int pointer, and then gives that pointer
> variable to wait.  This is what I did.  Whether it should be unsigned
> or not, I don't know.  Maybe this matters on some systems.  But if for
> some reason, wait() tried to stuff a negative int into status, then
> you'd get an error.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Eric G. Miller
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