[GRASS-user] grass72 or higher on RHEL6

[Anna Petrášová]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> Hi Anna,
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:21 AM, joerg robl <joerg.robl at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>>> I’ve compiled grass from source up to version 7.1 but unfortunately I get
>>> compilation errors compiling grass72 or higher (the configure script does
>>> not complain about any problems). It seems the compilation problems may be
>>> related to the rather old matplotlib (0.9x) while grass requires matplotlib
>>>> 1.2. As a result, the GRASS GUI crashes after the startup. Of course it
>>> may be possible to compile matplotlib from source, which however requires a
>>> higher version of numpy which in turn requires at least python2.7x instead
>>> of the installed python 2.6x. Not necessary to say that after compiling and
>>> installing python2.7x the wxPhyton libs would also require an update … ! At
>>> that point I ended up compiling grass72 on RHEL6.
>>
>> could you show us any errors you are getting during compilation or
>> startup? Matplotlib is not a core component, so this should be
>> solvable.
>
> I am currently trying to compile 7.2 on EPEL6 using Fedora's COPR platform.
>
> At time I struggle here:
>    DEBUG util.py:435:  Error: No Package found for python-matplotlib-wx
> see
> https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/neteler/grass72_epel6/epel-6-x86_64/00502967-grass/root.log.gz

I don't understand what I am looking at...
GRASS doesn't need matplotlib for compilation, and there is no
configure flag. I don't know where that error comes from.

>
> with which configure flag can I disable this part since
> python-matplotlib-wx will not be there (I tried for a while to compile
> that but no way it seems)?
>
> thanks
> Markus