[GRASS-user] More Fun Compiling & Installing GRASS on CentOS 8

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 5:19 AM mdwxman via grass-user
<grass-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> Looks like more fun here at dog fur manor.  I'm still stuck on the compilation of grass-7.8.5RC1 on CentOS 8.
>
> The script stops at line 6788 in the configure script with the ERROR message: Cannot find grass-config.

This is unexpected. Do you mean
gdal-config
?

If yes, you need to install the "gdal-devel" RPM.
In general, also other development packages like "proj-devel" are
needed. The list is in the Wiki page cited below.

> I've moved grass-config to many different subdirectories but always with the same result.
> I used the methods on https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#CentOS
> under the CentOS 8 and the GRASS 7 instructions.  The installation of all dependencies went fine but apparently there is an issue with grass-config.

Please use to "gdal-config" as per Wiki page.

Markus