[GRASS-user] Building from -7.2 svn checkout

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>   I want to take advantage of 7.2 capabilities so I checked out the source
> tree from svn. I have a customized configuration file which ran without
> error. But, ... there's no make file in the tree route. There's a
> non-executable Makefile, but that's it.

The "make" is to be provided by your system, it is a binary package.
That will read the "Makefile" then.

On my Fedora box it is the package "make-4.1-5.fc24.x86_64".

>   The INSTALL file assumes that make is present: it has a list of make
> options followed by the instruction to run 'make' after configuring the
> build.
>
>   Please point me to the make file for 7.2svn.

You will need to install it along with a compiler, e.g. "gcc" or "clang".

HTH
Markus