[GRASSLIST:2613] Re: GRASS 5.7 error on startup

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:51:28AM -0800, alcedo wrote:
> Dear all,
> I've compiled GRASS 5.3 successfully and then I tried
> to upgrade it to version 5.7. There was an error when
> the make scripts entered the lib/proj directory. To
> solve this problem, I skipped this process by
> modifying the Makefile.
> Then, I ran again the make process and it seems
> succeeded. 
> After the install process, I ran GRASS and this error
> message loaded: 
> 
> "Error in startup script: ps.map: error while loading
> shared libraries: libproj.so.0: cannot open shared

I guess there is a link missing:

locate libproj
su
cd /where/to/find/libproj*
ln -s libproj.so.0.4.1 libproj.so.0
#(use the version number you find in your system)
ldconfig

Then it should work.

Markus