[GRASS-user] Building grass version grass-7.8.5

[Hernán De Angelis]

Stephen,

Let's see if I can help you. I always compile GRASS from source and in 
my experience whenever there is a problem the most probable reason is 
that a library is lacking. Seldom is GRASS itself the problem.

The instructions Vero linked work of course but these are general and 
you need to change them to adapt to your system or preferred setup. So 
that depends on you.

I do not see what exactly you are doing or in which OS you are. It seems 
that you may need to ensure that python 3 is installed with its relevant 
modules. How that is done depends on your exact system. Pay attention 
that the GRASS GUI needs python wxWidgets bindings.

Assuming you are in Linux and that you have all the required libraries 
(including dev packages) installed, this should work:


- open a terminal and log in as root user


- change dir to /usr/local/src


- get the package file

wget https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/archive/refs/tags/7.8.5.tar.gz


- untar and uncompress the package file

tar -xvf 7.8.5.tar.gz


- change dir to grass-7.8.5

cd grass-7.8.5 (or whatever is called)


- configure, this depends on what exactly you have and what you want to 
do. The following is the line I use often. You need to edit this to suit 
your system and needs:

|./configure --enable-shared --with-odbc --with-fftw --with-readline 
--with-curses --with-proj-share=/usr/local/share/proj --enable-largefile 
--with-motif --with-freetype 
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 --with-sqlite 
--enable-64bit --with-geos --with-python --with-netcdf --with-blas|
||


|-make (use the N = number of cores in your processor to parallelize and 
make it complete in less time)
|

|make -j N|
|
|

|- install (this will put a script called grass78 in /usr/local/bin):|

|make install|


- as normal user, type in a terminal:

grass78


GRASS should then start.


Good luck


Hernán



On 2021-03-26 23:13, Stephen Kirby wrote:
> Thanks Veronica for that good information.  I've made some progress by 
> ensuring I had the libs it needs ready (GDAL, etc.).  Now it is giving 
> me a Python error :
>
>  File 
> "/home/me/grass/dist.x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/etc/python/grass/script/core.py", 
> line 305,
> **options,
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> I am not a Python user so this is throwing me.  I assume I need to 
> install a Python (Python3?) module, via "pip install ..." I suppose.  
> Can someone tell me which module can fix this?
>
> For reference, the whole Python block of code containing the offending 
> line, from core.py is:
> def make_command(
>  prog,
>  flags="",
>  overwrite=False,
>  quiet=False,
>  verbose=False,
>  superquiet=False,
>  errors=None,
>  **options,
> );
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> Best,
> Steve
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:25 PM Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail.com 
> <mailto:veroandreo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Steve,
>
>     I'm no expert in compiling at all, but I always run configure in
>     the source code directory. Have you tried?
>     Once configure runs without errors, just run make, if no errors at
>     the end, you are good to go
>
>     Here's a wiki with instructions for diverse linux platforms:
>     https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install
>     <https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install>
>
>     hth,
>     Vero
>
>     El vie, 26 mar 2021 a las 18:07, Stephen Kirby
>     (<thinjogger at gmail.com <mailto:thinjogger at gmail.com>>) escribió:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I am trying to build the version of GRASS listed in the
>         subject line.  However, when I run configure, it does not
>         produce a "Makefile" even though configure appears to complete
>         without error.  The closest thing I see to a Makefile is this
>         file:  include/Make/Platform.make.  I am not running configure
>         in the source code directory as one is always told this is a
>         bad idea (for ex., when building gcc).  I am running configure
>         in a separate directory ("/build-grass").  Let me know what I
>         should try next as I am excited to get GRASS running!
>
>         Best regards,
>         Steve
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