Vincent BAIN wrote:
Hello, Sorry if the problem below is not exactly a grass problem,
but I hope this is the best place to find people who encountered
it...
I currently work on Ubuntu Feisty, so when I compile a program from
sources I use the classical procedure : ./configure [options]
What GRASS version?
make
sudo checkinstall
What checkinstall version? There are couple of bugs in the latest 1.6.1
[1], going to be fixed in the next release soon. But 1.6.0 has been
working fine for me with several software for months now, including
GDAL, GRASS and QGIS (until 0.81; in case of 0.9 there are issues
related to the new QGIS build system based on cmake, which I haven't
figured out how to handle with checkinstall 1.6.0 yet).
In case you are using 1.6.1, I recommend downgrading to 1.6.0 available
in Edgy repos, eg. here [2]. It should install fine on Feisty.
Checkinstall usually works but sometimes does not... Particularly
with packages related to grass like gdal or Qgis.
Let's take the example of qgis-0.8.1 : checkinstall first says the
installation is successful, then create the debian package
successfully, then fails at installing the .deb.
Here's my typical command line for building GRASS 6.3 deb for instance:
sudo checkinstall -D --pkgname=grass63 --pkgversion=`date +%F`
--install=no --strip=yes --stripso=yes
--pakdir=$HOME/src/checkinstall_pakdir --deldoc=yes --deldesc=yes
--delspec=yes --backup=no
sudo dpkg -i $HOME/src/checkinstall_pakdir/grass63_2007-07-18-1_i386.deb
Does that work?
The problem is it tries to overwrite files belonging to grass in the
directory /usr/local/grass-6.3.cvs/include/grass !
So I tried to pass checkinstall with the option
--exclude=/usr/local/grass-6.3.cvs/include/grass
but lately a similar problem occurs with gdal files, and even cmake
and ccmake files in the end...
Any idea ?
Smells like checkinstall 1.6.1 issues. Try 1.6.0.
Maciek
[1]http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/index.php
[2]http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/admin/checkinstall