[GRASSLIST:6795] Re: GRASS 6 build/run problems on Linux

[Thomas Adams]

Glynn,

That did the trick. However, I also needed to copy the gdal & proj (and 
others) libs to the GRASS 6 lib directory due to our local admin setup. 
But it works; thanks for your help.

Regards,
Tom



Glynn Clements wrote:

>Thomas Adams wrote:
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>>I have pretty much successfully built GRASS 6 to run on Redhat Linux 7.3 
>>with a couple of exceptions. First off, I configured with:
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>>gdal 1.2.3
>>fftw 3.0.1
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>GRASS needs FFTW 2.x; 3.x isn't compatible.
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>>PostgreSQL 7.4.7
>>proj 4.4.9
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>>However, problem (1) I had to configure without fftw because the 
>>includes could not be found:
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>>checking whether to use FFTW... yes
>>checking for location of FFTW includes... 
>>/awips/rep/lx/local_apps/fftw/include
>>checking for fftw.h... no
>>checking for dfftw.h... no
>>configure: error: *** Unable to locate FFTW includes.
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>>However, in the fftw install directory were:
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>>fftw3.f  fftw3.h
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>>Should I be using an older version of fftw?
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>Yes.
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>>I ran the test for the install and everything verified. OK, I *can*
>>live without fftw.
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>FFTW is required for i.fft, i.zc and r.surf.fractal. If you don't need
>those modules, you don't need FFTW.
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>>The big problem occurs when I try to run GRASS 6, the display manager 
>>fails to start and I get:
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>>GRASS-GRID > Error in startup script: ps.map: error while loading shared 
>>libraries: libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
>>directory while executing
>>"exec ps.map -p"
>>    (procedure "DmPrint::init" line 14)
>>    invoked from within
>>"DmPrint::init"
>>    (procedure "main" line 32)
>>    invoked from within
>>"main $argc $argv"
>>    (file 
>>"/awips/rep/lx/local_apps/grass6-build/grass-6.0.0/etc/dm/d.m.tcl" line 894)
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>>I copied the gdal libs to /usr/local/lib and made sure it was in my 
>>path, but to no avail. I had to install gdal, fftw, proj, PostgreSQL, 
>>and GRASS 6 in the directory /awips/rep/lx/local_apps/ due to local 
>>admin restrictions.
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>>GRASS 6 runs from the command line, FWIW.
>>Any ideas?
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>Check that /usr/local/lib is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf, then run
>"ldconfig" as root.
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