[GRASS5] problems compiling pre4 on SuSE 8.0

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Hi

I have recently got a new machine and made the foolish decision to
install SuSE 8.0 on it instead of Red Hat or Mandrake that I am used to.

While trying to install Grass pre 4 I encountered the following errors:
During compiling the old postgres includes and libs story came up again,
so I set links with ln for the files postgres.h and postgres_fe.h to the
folder /usr/include/pgsql and defined the includes properly
./configure --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql

Well this is the error message that I got and can't explain:

checking whether to use PostgreSQL... yes
checking for location of PostgreSQL includes... /usr/include/pgsql
checking for libpq-fe.h... yes
checking for postgres.h... no
checking for postgres_fe.h... no
configure: error: *** Unable to locate PostgreSQL includes.

When configuring without postgres I got problems with openGL
configure could locate gl.h but not glu.h because such a file does not
exist on my system, although openGL is installed. I speculated that
glu.h might infact be glut.h and toock the chance to set a link.

Except for Postgress configure and make now runs without problems.
Make install however gives the following error message:

test -d /usr/src/grass/grass5.0.0pre4/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/locale &&
/bin/sh -c "cd /usr/src/grass/grass5.0.0pre4/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu ;
tar cBf - locale | (cd /usr/local/grass5 ; tar xBf - ) 2>/dev/null ;
true"
make[1]: *** [real-install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/grass/grass5.0.0pre4'
make: *** [install] Error 2

I then compiled Grass pre3 without problems (except for Postges)

When running NVIZ the following error message pops up:

/usr/local/grass5/tcltkgrass/main/pause: nviz: command not found

Finished - press RETURN or ENTER to continue

Can anyone help me out on this one please I urgently need to use R and
PostgeSQL in conjunction with GRASS for my work.

Kind regards

Wolfgang Lueck

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Wolfgang Lueck wrote:

I have recently got a new machine and made the foolish decision to
install SuSE 8.0 on it instead of Red Hat or Mandrake that I am used to.

While trying to install Grass pre 4 I encountered the following errors:
During compiling the old postgres includes and libs story came up again,
so I set links with ln for the files postgres.h and postgres_fe.h to the
folder /usr/include/pgsql and defined the includes properly
./configure --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql

Well this is the error message that I got and can't explain:

checking whether to use PostgreSQL... yes
checking for location of PostgreSQL includes... /usr/include/pgsql
checking for libpq-fe.h... yes
checking for postgres.h... no
checking for postgres_fe.h... no
configure: error: *** Unable to locate PostgreSQL includes.

postgres.h and postgres_fe.h are "internal" headers. You probably need
to specify an additional directory, e.g.

--with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/pgsql /usr/include/pgsql/internal"

When configuring without postgres I got problems with openGL
configure could locate gl.h but not glu.h because such a file does not
exist on my system, although openGL is installed. I speculated that
glu.h might infact be glut.h and toock the chance to set a link.

No, glu.h and glut.h are different. glu.h *should* be included as part
of OpenGL, but this isn't always the case for Linux distributions.

There may be a separate RPM for GLU; the one which I have is:

  oss-opengl-glu-20000925-1.i386.rpm

The most recent versions of XFree86 do include GLU, as do all versions
of Mesa. The problem was with the earlier XFree86 4.x releases.

Except for Postgress configure and make now runs without problems.
Make install however gives the following error message:

test -d /usr/src/grass/grass5.0.0pre4/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/locale &&
/bin/sh -c "cd /usr/src/grass/grass5.0.0pre4/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu ;
tar cBf - locale | (cd /usr/local/grass5 ; tar xBf - ) 2>/dev/null ;
true"
make[1]: *** [real-install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/grass/grass5.0.0pre4'
make: *** [install] Error 2

This is a known problem with pre4. If you create the
dist.<arch>/locale directory (where <arch> is typically something like
i686-pc-linux-gnu) manually, "make install" should succeed.

I then compiled Grass pre3 without problems (except for Postges)

When running NVIZ the following error message pops up:

/usr/local/grass5/tcltkgrass/main/pause: nviz: command not found

NVIZ requires OpenGL; it won't be built if OpenGL support is disabled,
so you will have to install GLU if you want NVIZ.

--
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>