[GRASS-user] Grass.make and Platform.make

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Jonathan Greenberg
<greenberg at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> I was hoping to try out the latest r.terracost (v 1.1 at the time of this
> email) on our Debian installation of GRASS 6.3, and I'm getting hung up on
> (following a "make"):
>
> /var/tmp/grass/grass-6.3.0RC4/include/Make/Multi.make:4:
> /var/tmp/grass/grass-6.3.0RC4/include/Make/Platform.make: No such file or
> directory
> /var/tmp/grass/grass-6.3.0RC4/include/Make/Multi.make:5:
> /var/tmp/grass/grass-6.3.0RC4/include/Make/Grass.make: No such file or
> directory
> make: *** No rule to make target
> `/var/tmp/grass/grass-6.3.0RC4/include/Make/Grass.make'.  Stop.
>
> When I look in this directory, I see there's a Grass.make.in and a
> Platform.make.in, but nothing with just Platform.make and Grass.make.  Any
> ideas how I get these two files?

Yes: you need to "configure" the source code which generates those files
from the .in files.

Please take a look at "INSTALL" in the main source code directory what
to do. In a nutshell:

./configure
make
make install

but typically you need to give a couple of parameters to configure (depending
on the operating system).

Markus