[GRASS-user] GRASS 7.4.2 make error

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 2:42 PM Thomas Adams <tea3rd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> I'm trying to make GRASS 7.4.2 from source on Ubuntu 16.04. I've built GRASS from source many times but I am seeing this error:
>
> include/Make/Vars.make:1: include/Make/Platform.make: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target 'include/Make/Platform.make'.  Stop.
>
> My configure options look like this:
> ./configure  --enable-64bit --with-libs=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --with-cxx --enable-largefile=yes --with-nls --with-readline --with-pthread --with-proj-share=/usr/local/share/proj/ --with-geos=/usr/local/bin/geos-config --with-wxwidgets=/usr/local/bin/wx-config --with-cairo --with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL --with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2/ --with-postgres=yes --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql --with-sqlite=yes --with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-odbc=no --with-blas --with-lapack --with-liblas=yes --with-liblas-config=/usr/bin/liblas-config --with-netcdf=/usr/local/bin/nc-config --with-blas-libs=/usr/lib/libblas --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include --with-lapack-libs=/usr/lib --with-blas-includes=/usr/include --no-create --no-recursion

What is the purpose of

sh configure --help | grep no-create -
  --no-create             do not create output files

? (I have never seen that being used...)

Maybe that's the issue?

Markus