Compiled GRASS transferable between identical platforms?

Fellow GU/GP's;
  A colleague of mine was wondering if he could take his compiled version
of GRASS and copy it to another machine with identical hardware and software
without having to recompile it. It is a given that he would also have to
change some path names that on the new machine and some internal GRASS files.
But the end question is would it work reliably or is recompilation usually
the recommended procedure?

Craig
caa@noaacdc.colorado.edu

Craig Anderson (caa@noaacdc.Colorado.EDU) writes on 14 Jun 94:

A colleague of mine was wondering if he could take his compiled version
of GRASS and copy it to another machine with identical hardware and software
without having to recompile it. It is a given that he would also have to
change some path names that on the new machine and some internal GRASS files.
But the end question is would it work reliably or is recompilation usually
the recommended procedure?

I don't really see this as being much different than just mounting a
directory (we run the same binaries on a few dozen machines).

Things to look out for:
1. be sure that we're talking about exactly the same OS (shared library
    versions)
2. for changed paths, check:
    grass4.1 and gmake4.1 scripts
    the default database path
    monitorcap
    (others?)
3. depending upon how it is copied, you may want to re-create named pipes

have I forgotten anything?

--Darrell