[GRASS-user] installation problems

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Hello,

I’m having trouble with installing grass in my directory. I would like to install grass locally as I don’t have root privileges. I’ve completed installing proj4 in a local area but cannot get grass to realize that it has been installed. when I run the configure script, I get the following message:

configure: error: *** Unable to locate External PROJ.4 includes.

any help would be appreciated :slight_smile:

thanks.

abhi

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Abhinandan,

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Abhinandan Raghavan
<abhinandan.raghavan@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm having trouble with installing grass in my directory. I would like to
install grass locally as I don't have root privileges. I've completed
installing proj4 in a local area but cannot get grass to realize that it has
been installed. when I run the configure script, I get the following
message:

configure: error: *** Unable to locate External PROJ.4 includes.

you need to use these parameters of configure:
  --with-proj-includes=DIRS
  --with-proj-libs=DIRS External PROJ.4 library files are in DIRS
  --with-proj-share=DIR External PROJ.4 data files are in DIR

to indicate the directories.

Hint: I personally don't even install GRASS but run it from the
directory where I compiled. The start script is in bin.$ARCH, e.g.
./bin.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/grass64

Hope this helps
Markus

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Markus Neteler wrote:

> I'm having trouble with installing grass in my directory. I would like to
> install grass locally as I don't have root privileges. I've completed
> installing proj4 in a local area but cannot get grass to realize that it has
> been installed. when I run the configure script, I get the following
> message:
>
> configure: error: *** Unable to locate External PROJ.4 includes.

you need to use these parameters of configure:
  --with-proj-includes=DIRS
  --with-proj-libs=DIRS External PROJ.4 library files are in DIRS
  --with-proj-share=DIR External PROJ.4 data files are in DIR

to indicate the directories.

On Linux, you will also need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the
directory where the shared libraries are installed. Other platforms
have similar mechanisms (e.g. DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on MacOSX).

Without that, modules which link against PROJ won't run, and linking
against libraries which themselves require PROJ (e.g. GDAL, and
various GRASS libraries) won't work either.

--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>