[GRASSLIST:7449] Re: error message in configuration

[Hamish]

> > checking for tiffio.h... no
> > configure: error: *** Unable to locate TIFF includes.
> > 
> > what does (debian) package have tiffio.h ?
> 
> Searching for tiffio.h using the search tool at:
> 
> 	http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents
> 
> suggests that the relevant package is:
> 
> 	libdevel/libtiff4-dev


another useful debian way to find the package is

$ apt-file search tiffio.h



> A list of generic packages which GRASS requires can be found in the
> REQUIREMENTS.html file. Packages for specific OS distributions tend to
> use similar names. However, many distributions split packages into
> "user" and "developer" packages (e.g. libtiff4 and libtiff4-dev). You
> need both packages in order to compile GRASS, but only the user
> package to run it.


further, check the "Build-depends" line on the Debian package
information page [dsc] for needed build packages:

 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/grass/grass_6.0.0-1.dsc

Build-Depends: flex, bison, libreadline4-dev, libncurses5-dev,
lesstif2-dev, debhelper (>= 4.0.2), dpatch, libtiff4-dev, tcl8.3-dev,
tk8.3-dev, fftw-dev, xlibmesa-gl-dev, xlibmesa-glu-dev,
libfreetype6-dev, autoconf2.13, autotools-dev, libgdal1-dev, proj (>=
4.4.7), libjpeg62-dev, libpng12-dev, postgresql-dev, unixodbc-dev,
doxygen, fakeroot


You don't need all of those packages (eg debhelper, fakeroot), but most
of them.



Hamish