[GRASSLIST:1318] Disaster with "make clean" --GRASS-5.0-10 Linux

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Hi,
I'm new to GRASS but not to Linux and I'm somewhat hesistant to post
this since it is at least partly a major screw-up on my part. [And it's
alsolikely that I'm "losing it" ... ] But lest anyone else have this
problem, here goes (don't try this at home, kids):

Redhat 7.0-i386

Downloaded grass5.0.10beta.tar.gz.
Unpacked into /opt [as root since everything after 'configure' requires
root privileges...]
cd into /opt/grass5.0.10beta

./configure [regular stuff, pointing libs to the right places, etc]
make, make install.
Run ; play with, etc. Some problems with monitor selection, etc.

NOW: "make distclean" to get ready to reconfigure/rebuild.

*****THIS WIPES OUT MOST DIRECTORIES UNDER /usr/local: e.g.
/usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, etc, etc, etc.***

The default configure-generated Makefile uses /usr/local as PREFIX and
the 'make clean' step just rm -rf's the dirs...
$PREFIX/bin/, $PREFIX/lib/, and so on.

Comments??? I don't see from the Makefile where things would have been
different if I had unpacked into /usr/local and configured from
/usr/local/grass-5.0-10-beta.

In general, I hate building stuff as root because stupid things like
this can happen. I have more or less come to expect makefile to
clean-up via file lists, rather than rm -rf, but perhaps that's my
inexperience...

Back to GRASS after I rebuild the rest of my system.

Regards,
Dr. Peter Denisevich

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Hello Peter

Peter Denisevich wrote:

Hi,
I'm new to GRASS but not to Linux and I'm somewhat hesistant to post
this since it is at least partly a major screw-up on my part. [And
it's alsolikely that I'm "losing it" ... ] But lest anyone else have
this problem, here goes (don't try this at home, kids):

This was not entirely your fault. Please accept our humble apologies for
your nasty introduction to GRASS. We were informed of this problem
recently and a beta 11 version should be released very soon. It is our
current highest priority. Unfortunately, you must have missed the
warnings that were sent out earlier.

Please do not let this experience deter you from trying GRASS.

--
Sincerely,

Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey) e-mail: jhickey@hpcc.nectec.or.th
High Performance Computing Center
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
Bangkok, Thailand

People who think they know everything are very irritating to those
of us who do. ---Anonymous

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