Compile help

[Pavol Cvengros]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 02:05:45PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 09:11:37PM +0000, David Armstrong wrote:
> > > Could anyone help a new guy compile GRASS 5b6
> > >
> > > running linux mandrake 7
> [...]
>

I have It.....and I have no problem with compile......just....

>
> > The line in the Makefile that's giving you grief is in the pre-install:
> >
> >         ${ENV} ${MAKE_GMAKE_ENV} ${MAKE_POST_ENV} ${SHELL}
> [...]

set the ENV variable to this:    ENV =
and line:   ${ENV} ${MAKE_GMAKE_ENV} ${MAKE_POST_ENV} ${SHELL}
rewrite to: ${MAKE_GMAKE_ENV}
                ${MAKE_POST_ENV}
                ${SHELL}


>
> > It's calling the program "env" to modify the environment for
> > compilation, and it's trying to source your /root/.bashrc. If it doesn't
> > exist, just do "touch /root/.bashrc" to create an empty file.
> Please check Makefile, if ${ENV} was expanded to "env" properly.
> It fails on a few platforms (why?).
>
> > Unfortunately, grass is still a little braindamaged in the
> > compilation/installation. It's generally recommended to never compile
> > things as root 'cause "Bad things can happen".  I'd recommend giving
> Oh! What are the problems here? Then we can try to fix them.
>
> > It'd be better if GRASS's "make" or "make all" would just compile
> > the binaries but not install them, then you could "su -c 'make
> > install'".  But, for various reasons, that's currently not possible.
>
> We are working on this, it is a non-trivial task due to GRASS
> programming history. Currently we are lucky that at least "auto-conf"
> is working :-) Our plans are to restructure the GRASS sources
> to small content-oriented packages (GRASS-Core, GRASS-basic, ...)
> with GNU-style make/make install. I hope we manage soon but
> any help would be appreciated. Please contact me on this if
> you could support us.
>
> Regards
>
>  Markus Neteler

        compile it and use it :) ......
                    regards
                            Pavol Cvengros

PS: I have started rewrite of v.digit to Qt driven GUI enhanc.