GRASS on 64bit machines

[Luca Palmeri]

Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 01:12:50PM -0500, Rado Bonk wrote:
> > Does anybody has experiences with installing GRASS5beta3 on 64 bit
> > ULTRALinux or SOLARIS 7.0.
> No, but Bill Hughes run it on GNU/Linux for alpha 64 bit and
> I got it to run on DEC Unix for alpha 64 bit.

I have compiled GRASS on an alpha DU and I strongly suggest you to wait
the next week for beta4. This should be much easy to compile. For me beta3
was quite difficult,  lot of stops and changes to the code. This should change

in beta4

> Otherwise: The portable vector format doesn't work and
> 64bit might have difficulties reading other people's grass data files.

This is true. There is a temporary solution to that: before
porting the data on the 64bit architecture export
all the vector files to ascii (v.to.ascii). and once
on the 64bit platform do s.in.ascii.

Luca

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