[GRASSLIST:788] problems compiling grass5.1 on RH-9

[enils at twctex.lidar.net]

Hi,

There were a few things that I had to install to get past ./configure 
command for grass5.1, like fftw, gdal, and proj4. There was a file 
color_byg.c missing which make was looking for. After I got this file from 
http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass/src/libes/gis/color_byr.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
I had to comment out these functions G_make_byr_colors, 
G_make_byr_fp_colors, G_add_byr_colors from color_byg.c because make was 
complaining about those functions presence in color_byr.c as well. Another 
problem was I think a syntax error in one of the files which I dont have 
record of unfortunately. There was a function in that file
int G_ask_datum_name(char *, char *); which needed to be 
int G_ask_datum_name(char *); in order for make to work. 
Finally after getting past these problems I gave up when I got:
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `datumtransform.table', needed by
`/home/enils/grass51_exp_2003_07_12/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/etc/datumtransform.table'.
Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/enils/grass51_exp_2003_07_12/lib/gis'
make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/enils/grass51_exp_2003_07_12/lib'
make: *** [default] Error 1

My system runs RH-9 and I also have grass5.0 source that is needed by 
grass5.1. I am wondering if other people have had the same or similar 
problems. 

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Enils



On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Paul Kelly wrote:

> Hello
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Enils Bashi wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am new to grass, and I am trying to compile grass51 unstable cvs 
> > version. I got the source code for grass5.0 which I understand was 
> > required to compile grass5.1. I have already spent a great deal of time 
> > fixing many compiling problems. Right now I have the following problem 
> > when I run make:
> 
> I think the GRASS 5.1 compilation runs quite reliably at the minute,
> although there are several dependency bugs in the Makefiles that cause
> some things to be re-compiled every time make is run. What
> problems did you have to fix? You must use the latest CVS HEAD version of
> grass 5.0, preferably with the same date as the 5.1 snapshot you are
> using. This is not totally clear on the webpage; we must change it to
> delete the line saying the preX release will not do (as this implies
> 5.0.0 is OK).
> 
> Paul Kelly
> 
>