[GRASSLIST:3155] Re: Cannot get the makefile to work

[Robert Holmes]

Richard - many thanks, that worked nicely - Robert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Greenwood [mailto:rich at greenwoodmap.com] 
> Sent: 13 April 2004 20:21
> To: Robert Holmes
> Cc: GRASSLIST at baylor.edu
> Subject: [GRASSLIST:3153] Re: Cannot get the makefile to work
> 
> 
> Robert Holmes wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm trying and failing to install GRASS 5.0.3 from source code. I 
> > suspect I'm doing something truly dumb but I'm not sure 
> what and I'd 
> > appreciate your guidance.
> > 
> > As suggested in the installation instructions, I've created a 
> > directory (as
> > root) /opt/src/grass5sources and unpacked 
> grass-5.0.3_src.tar.gz. Changing
> > to the directory grass5.0.3, I then run ./configure, which 
> appears to run OK
> > (the only error is it cannot locate TIFF includes. This is 
> an optional
> > module so I figured it should be OK).
> > 
> > Now comes the problem - when I run make I get the response:
> > 	bash: make#: command not found
> > which is understandable because there isn't a Makefile in my 
> > grass5.0.3 directory. There is a Makefile.in though, and when I run 
> > that (make -f Makefile.in), it only runs briefly before 
> failing thus:
> > 	@SRCDIR@/src/CMD/generic/is64bit.sh:
> > @SRCDIR@/src/CMD/generic/is64bit.sh: No such file or directory
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong? Any guidance gratefully received,
> > 
> > Robert Holmes
> 
> Try
>     ./configure --with-tiff=no
> You do not have a Makefile because configure failed at the 
> tiff option. 
> If configure succeeds, it will list the various options and create a 
> Makefile. Makefile.in is the initialization, or seed, file 
> for configure 
> and is not meant to be built.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Richard Greenwood
> www.greenwoodmap.com
> 
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