[GRASS-user] Compiling from source on RHEL 5.x

[Mathieu Baudier]

> EPEL repo. BTW, why not use the packages already prepared from the ELGIS
> repo? They have 6.4.0 as stable, and 6.4.1 in the "testing" branch. If you
> enable both repos, then GRASS and all its dependencies should be no more
> than a 'yum install ...'

Indeed you are welcome to use the ELGIS packages!
(please note that the ELGIS repository depends on the EPEL repository
which must be installed first)

GRASS 6.4.1 will move from testing to stable very soon (so far, we
just had to apply a small patch due to an incompatibility in the wx UI
with Python 2.4).
We would be very interested to have some more feedback on this version.

You can find more information here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS

and ask questions on the list:
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/el

If you definitely need to build it yourself you may still be
interested in the spec file and its dependencies and configure
options:
https://projects.argeo.org/elgis/svn/factory/trunk/rpmbuild/elgis/grass/SPECS/grass.spec

Regarding your issue, I can see:

BuildRequires:  ... fftw2-devel ...

and
%configure \
   ...
   --with-fftw \
   ...

Last but not least, the Enterprise Linux GIS effort is not only about
maintaining the RPM packages, but also general discussion / community
support around FLOSS GIS software on the Enterprise Linux platform.

So the list is a good place to ask such questions even if you don't
use the packages.

Cheers,

Mathieu