[GRASS-user] r.to.vect peculiarity

[Martin Wegmann]

On Friday 26 October 2007 23:27:47 Glynn Clements wrote:
> Martin Wegmann wrote:
> > > run make distclean before re-compilation...
> >
> > I did run make distclean before svn update;.configure;make;make install
>
> "cvs update", right?
>
> > but is it normal that
> > ...
> > cvs server: Updating grass6/visualization/xganim
> > cvs server: Updating grass6/visualization/xganim/bitmaps
> > cvs server: Updating grass6/visualization/ximgview
> >
> > appears also when I execute 'cvs update -dP grass6' a second time?
>
> Yes. FWIW, I normally use:
>
> 	cvs update 2>&1 | fgrep -v 'cvs server: Updating '
>
> so that important messages aren't lost amongst the noise.
>
> > I thought it just tells me that no updates are available after the second
> > try.
> >
> > Perhaps it is a local problem, I might give it a try to update in a fresh
> > folder and copy all my modules into this new grass6 folder.
>
> The fact that the --help output says:
> > > >    output   Name for output raster3d map
>
> indicates that the r.to.vect module was compiled with a different
> version of gis.h than was used for libgis.
>
> This usually means that one of the two has been recompiled after an
> update while the other hasn't, but it can also occur if compilation
> uses an installed version of gis.h rather than the local copy.
>
> It's also conceivable that it could end up using an old version of
> libgis via GDAL, although I have no confirmation of this happening in
> practice.

I created a new folder and redid the whole procedure - now it works again - no 
idea where I messed up the cvs update.

Martin