Compile help

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 02:27:56PM -0600, Michael Pool wrote:
>     I know there has been some answers given to the issue of
>     compiling Grass, but why not use the binary version for linux?  I
>     installed Grass 5.0 Beta 6 on Linux Mandrake 7.0, and it is
>     running well.  Is there some advantage to compiling?  If not, use
>     the binary version.

Well a bunch of possible reasons come to mind:

* 	Hacking around the source code of GRASS
*	Using updated development versions from CVS.
*	Nonstandard Configuration of the system

	Bernhard
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