[GRASSLIST:4988] Re: grass 5.7 vs. Debian sid

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:02:01AM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Dan Jacobson wrote:
> 
> > S> I would recommend downloading the Source-snapshot of GRASS 5.7 which
> > S> comes with a proper debian/-folder to build your own .deb on the
> > S> debian-way. http://grass.itc.it/grass57/source/snapshot/ (7.2mb)
> > 
> > Then do dpkg-checkbuilddeps to see the additional packages you will
> > need to compile it.  They ought to put this where you can see it
> > before you download. [Took several wget -c's throughout the night just
> > to find out.]:
> > 
> > Build-Depends: autoconf (>=2.13), autotools-dev,
> 
> I don't know about the rest, but you shouldn't need autoconf or the
> other "auto" tools to build GRASS.
> 
> The CVS repository includes the configure script; you only need
> autoconf if you modify configure.in.
> 
> GRASS doesn't use automake or libtool.

Done in CVS.
I also corrected the fftw3-dev -> fftw2-dev (as GRASS requires FFTW2, not FFTW3).

Markus