[GRASSLIST:458] RE: Building GRASS in a user account

[Aaron Racicot]

Hey there David,

I have not had to do this, but in general:

1) If you want to install a package in a non-standard place you can
specify the --prefix option in the configure.  For Proj.4 you might try
something like:
./configure --prefix=/home/davidf/local_apps/proj4/
This will install proj4 in the local_apps directory of your user
account.

2) If you want to compile against a specific version of an app (or
something located in a non-standard place) you can specify
--with-PACKAGE[=ARG].  To compile GRASS against your local version of
Proj try something like:
./configure --with-proj-libs=/home/davidf/local_apps/proj4/lib/
--with-proj-includes=/home/davidf/local_apps/proj4/include/

3) You might also have to specify the --prefix for GRASS so that it gets
installed in the /home/davidf/local_apps directory as well.

4) Modify your .bash_profile or /bashrc to include the path to the grass
and proj executables so that you can access them easily.

Also, you should look at all the other configure options as well for
both packages, as what I put on the configure line is just the options
to get you past this problem... You will need others I am sure.

Hope this helps... and works!

Aaron

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-GRASSLIST at baylor.edu [mailto:owner-GRASSLIST at baylor.edu] On
Behalf Of David Finlayson
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 10:23 AM
To: GRASSLIST
Subject: [GRASSLIST:457] Building GRASS in a user account


In the past, I've always had root access to install libraries via the
package managers prior to building GRASS from CVS. I am now facing a
system where I will not have root access period. In fact, I cannot even
use CVS since the firewall blocks most ports (I tried the https trick by
adding 443 at the end of the IP address, but I don't think it is
supported by CVSROOT.

So, I created a source directory in my user account and downloaded grass
and proj4. Proj4 built without problems. But how do I "install" it in my
user account? That is, where do I put the files (and what is the best
way to get them there) so that I can build GRASS against the proj4
headers and libraries?

I tried configuring grass to the ~/source/proj4/src directory where most
of the compiled code for proj4 is, but that crashed with grass
./configure complaining about not finding proj4 libraries.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

--
David Finlayson