[GRASSLIST:7757] Re: SuSE 9.3 rpm packages

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:59:50AM +0200, Otto Dassau wrote:
> Am Montag, 25. Juli 2005 20:39 schrieb Lars Forseth:
> > On Wednesday 13. July 2005 17:12, you wrote:
> > > Dear GIS-Users,
> > >
> > > we updated our SuSE 9.1 to 9.3. Therefore from now on the provided free
> > > RPM packages for GRASS GIS and related software (QGIS, GDAL, PROJ.4 and
> > > Geos) are compiled on SuSE 9.3 - but hopefully still work on older
> > > distributions.
> >
> > unfortunately no! I'm running SUSE 9.2, on an AMD64 system (recently built
> > by my self). When I try to install grass-6.0.0-1suse93.rpm this is what I
> > get:
> >
> > "linus:/home/larsf/Programmer/grass # rpm -i grass*rpm
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         libdfftw.so.2 is needed by grass-6.0.0-1suse93"
> >
> >
> > I've checked and the fftw packages are installed. I tried to compile frome
> > source (went well), but no luck. I've linked to /usr/local/lib from
> > /usr/lib; no luck. Where does this grass rpm expect this lib to live?
> 
> Dear Lars,
> 
> libdfftw.so.2 is installed in /usr/lib/ - same as on your SuSE 9.2 I guess. 
> There it should work fine. Unfortunately we don't have a SUSE 9.2 on AMD64 
> installed for testing - maybe other users can share their experiences and 
> help?

Maybe it's unrelated, but I had to compile libfftw with -fPIC flag to
make it working on a 64bit platform.

See INSTALL in GRASS 6.1-CVS
  (http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/grass6/INSTALL?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup)
for details:
 (C) COMPILATION NOTES for 64bit platforms

If you got libfftw2 from SuSe, it should be (hopefully) ok.

Markus