Hello everyone
Source code for the release candidate for GRASS 5.4.0 is now available for testing at
ftp://ftp.qub.ac.uk/pub/users/paulk/grass/grass-5.4.0pre1.tar.bz2
Please try it with your usual compile options etc. and check that everything is working. Report problems to the mailing list.
If all minor bugs have been fixed after one week, next week we can release 5.4.0 final (stable).
Paul
Paul,
On Mon, October 18, 2004 17:51, Paul Kelly said:
Hello everyone
Source code for the release candidate for GRASS 5.4.0 is now available for
testing at
ftp://ftp.qub.ac.uk/pub/users/paulk/grass/grass-5.4.0pre1.tar.bz2
Please try it with your usual compile options etc. and check that
everything is working. Report problems to the mailing list.
I compiled on Debian testing/unstable with
configure --with-gdal --with-freetype --with-readline
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.3/
--with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql/
/usr/include/postgresql/internal/"
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2/ --with-motif
and everything went perfectly well.
First superficial testing of display shows no problems.
Only remark: the new build mechanism, i.e. the two separate directories
for source and build, should be described in the "INSTALL" file.
Moritz
someone might want to list the help pages for the newly activated
modules in the help menus.
ie, these:
http://grass.ibiblio.org/gdp/html_grass5/index.html
?
Hamish
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 02:51, Paul Kelly wrote:
Hello everyone
Source code for the release candidate for GRASS 5.4.0 is now available for
testing at
ftp://ftp.qub.ac.uk/pub/users/paulk/grass/grass-5.4.0pre1.tar.bz2
Please try it with your usual compile options etc. and check that
everything is working. Report problems to the mailing list.
I tried downloading and installing grass-5.4.0pre1 on a new Solaris 9 box.
I first installed the following packages from sunfreeware:
bison-1.875d-sol9-sparc-local.gz
flex-2.5.31-sol9-sparc-local.gz
freetype-2.1.7-sol9-sparc-local.gz
gcc-3.4.2-sol9-sparc-local.gz
libiconv-1.8-sol9-sparc-local.gz
libpng-1.2.7-sol9-sparc-local.gz
make-3.80-sol9-sparc-local.gz
mesa-6.0-sol9-sparc-local.gz
tcl-8.4.6-sol9-sparc-local.gz
tk-8.4.6-sol9-sparc-local.gz
zlib-1.2.1-sol9-sparc-local.gz
Then I tried to configure and got:
$ ./configure
checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.9
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for full floating-point support... yes
checking for pwd... /usr/bin/pwd
checking for source directory... /data1/homes/neptune/grass-5.4.0pre1
checking for build directory... /data1/homes/neptune/grass-5.4.0pre1
checking for Build Mechanism to be used... Alternate
configure: error: *** Build directory should not be the same as source
directory for the alternate build mechanism. Create a separate build
directory and run again, e.g. mkdir ~/grass-build; cd ~/grass-build; /usr/
src/grass/configure ... (see mk/README)
Any idea why it has chosen the Alternate build mechanism?
Regards
Gordon
--
Gordon Keith
Programmer/Data Analyst
Marine Acoustics
CSIRO Marine Research
http://www.marine.csiro.au
To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it;
to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it.
- Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:05, Hamish wrote:
> Any idea why it has chosen the Alternate build mechanism?
5.4 was changed to do this, as shared libraries should work on all
(most) platforms now.
from INSTALL:
The intent of the install method is to have the following sequence
of commands work to install GRASS on any platform.
./configure
make
make install
from error:
configure: error: *** Build directory should not be the same as source
directory for the alternate build mechanism. Create a separate build
directory and run again, e.g. mkdir ~/grass-build; cd ~/grass-build; /usr/
src/grass/configure ... (see mk/README)
Am I missing something, or is the build process a lot harder than it should
be?
(I'm looking at it as a pre-release for a stable version, not as a development
version, so I'm being fussier than normal)
Regards
Gordon
--
Gordon Keith
Programmer/Data Analyst
Marine Acoustics
CSIRO Marine Research
http://www.marine.csiro.au
42.7% of all statistics are made up.
The intent of the install method is to have the following sequence
of commands work to install GRASS on any platform../configure
make
make installfrom error:
configure: error: *** Build directory should not be the same as
source directory for the alternate build mechanism. Create a separate
build directory and run again, e.g. mkdir ~/grass-build; cd
~/grass-build; /usr/ src/grass/configure ... (see mk/README)
I guess that should read:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --with-this --without-that
make
make install
?
Hamish
Gordon Keith wrote:
I tried downloading and installing grass-5.4.0pre1 on a new Solaris 9 box.
Then I tried to configure and got:
$ ./configure
checking for Build Mechanism to be used... Alternate
configure: error: *** Build directory should not be the same as source
directory for the alternate build mechanism. Create a separate build
directory and run again, e.g. mkdir ~/grass-build; cd ~/grass-build; /usr/
src/grass/configure ... (see mk/README)Any idea why it has chosen the Alternate build mechanism?
That is the default now. You need to either:
a) use --enable-gmake to use the old gmake5 mechanism, or
b) create a separate build directory, i.e.
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure ...
Option b) has the advantage that you can keep multiple builds around;
however, the alternate build mechanism requires GNU make, or at least
something which is reasonably compatible (include, ifeq, $(subst...)).
--
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Hamish wrote:
someone might want to list the help pages for the newly activated
modules in the help menus.ie, these:
http://grass.ibiblio.org/gdp/html_grass5/index.html
I had a quick look in the html directory in the 5.4 source and it seems most of the new commands that have html pages are already listed, r.in.mat, r.out.mat, d.nviz are the ones I checked. r.series and r.grow2 don't have html pages so I'll leave them out of the index.
Paul
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Hamish wrote:
r.series and r.grow2 don't have html pages so I'll leave them out of
the index.probably just copy the autogenerated one from 5.7?
I'm in a bit of a rush to get out the door right now otherwise I'd just
do it myself....
Good idea and done now for r.series and d.info.
I'll probably tag 5.4.0 from the release branch later today.
Paul