[GRASSLIST:4661] Re: Compiling Grass

[David Bannon]

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Hi Miha, thanks for your suggestions. I grabbed the source for 5.3 and, as
you suggested, it compiles OK (except for src/raster/r.mapcalc3) as long as
I turn off gdal. If I turn on gdal it also balks at the lack of gdal-config,
just where is this file supposed to come from ?

Anyway, I installed the now compiled 5.3 and then tried gdal. It still
cannot find the grass libraries, I'm telling it where its been installed,
trying :

--with-grass=/usr/local01/grass53
--with-grass=/usr/local01/grass5.3.0
--with-grass=/usr/local01/grass53/lib

And getting errors like this

checking for G_asprintf in -lgrass_gis... no
configure: error: --with-grass=/usr/local01/grass53 requested, but libraries
not found!
 
So I have two problems :

1. I don't have a gdal-config, don't know what it should contain, cannot get
one.

2. I cannot get gdal to recognise the grass5.3 install, particularly
libgrass_gris (because its not there!)

Have to say that I don't see why I need 5.3 before installing 5.7, perhaps
that's the bit I'm missing. Are you doing something with the 5.3 install
that affects the 5.7 ?

I'm wondering if the problem is happening because we are installing into
/usr/local01/ rather than /usr/local. We need to do that because it's a
pretty large cluster, don't have a lot of flexability about how we install
things.

Your suggestions :

Fftw - yep, we have 2.1.3
Gdal - like I said, it will not compile with grass support, demanding to see
libgrass_gis. 5.3 does not make or install one.
Proj - got that compiled and installed.
Motif, blas and lapack - are installed.
Postgres - we don't plan to use postgres

Don't want to use rpms because want to find whats missing at this stage.

The system is part of a 200 CPU cluster running RH7.3, reasonably well
updated and the 2.4.26 kernel.

David



> David,
> 
> Here is my experience in compiling first experimental
> cvs of GRASS 5.3 and then GRASS 5.7. You first need
> GRASS 5.3 installed to compile GRASS 5.7.
> 
> First I compile the libraries needed for GRASS 5.3 to
> have all the additional stuff I want. That are: 
> 
> - fftw (you need the version 2 and not 3)
> (./configure, make, make install)
> 
> - gdal (You should get the latest version 1.2.3 if I
> am not wrong. You do not need to compile gdal with
> grass)
> 
> - proj (there are rpms of proj in the PostGIS site.
> Try to find 4.4.8
> 
> - PostgreSQL (Many distros have it included, but the
> src.rpm is not difficult to compile.) 
> 
> - motif, blas and lapack are also included in my linux distribution
> 
> Gdal, proj and PostgreSQL are strongly recommended.
> See also if you have tcltk on your machine. There is a
> nice GUI included with the source.
> 
> Find and download Markus's conf_grass50_linux.sh shell
> script. It will help you to clear things up. You
> should edit it the way to suit your needs. 
> 
> After that make and make install should go without
> problems. 
> 
> GRASS 5.7 is a new version with stronger vector
> database support. To compile that follow the
> instructions of the INSTALL file in the main source
> directory. But you MUST have GRASS 5.3 installed
> first. The configure step is very similar to gras5.3
> configure, but be attentive to the CFLAGS="-g -Wall"
> and --with-grass50.
> 
> You did not tell us what OS you are running. There are
> also precompiled versions of GRASS.
> 
> Miha
> 
> 
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