[GRASS-user] Compiling addons - description.html

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:51 PM, John
Stevenson<John.Stevenson at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When compiling addons,

If you use a recent GRASS 6.5 or 7, you just need to enter:

g.extension r.denoise
g.extension  r.surf.volcano

and everything should be installed.

> how do I make the description.html file that comes
> with the addon be installed as the help page that loads with g.manual?
>  Currently, I am getting a short page with just the commands as generated by
> g.parser.
>
> e.g. in grass-addons/raster/r.denoise, or r.surf.volcano
> sudo make MODULE_TOPDIR=/usr/local/grass-6.5.svn
> sudo make MODULE_TOPDIR=/usr/local/grass-6.5.svn install

If also g.extension fails, there might be a bug in the "install" part.
I tried here and I didn't have problems (but I am no Makefile expert).

Markus