I am attempting to build GRASS on my machine and I suppose I am having trouble. I am so bewildered by all of this I can't actually be sure. I am posting to request help. Here is my situation:
I am new to GRASS development, and I am working on GSoC on integrating PDAL interoperability. I have not yet set up my project's wiki page or I would link it in this sentence. I am running OSGeo-live on Oracle Virtual Box with my base OS being Windows 8.1. My mentor, Vashek Petras, directed me to start here: https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#Dependencies and work through the build procedure. On that page, I got down as far as "simple configure, compile and install" and ran that once. I don't remember what it told me, but I figured it was okay since I could always do it again, so I executed the next line (under the "or"): ./configure && make -j2 && sudo checkinstall When I do this, I get the message Building Debian package... FAILED! so I am thinking this is bad and I should get this to succeed before moving on to other steps. Here is more information: When I try to run it again, I get a screen of Warnings: checkinstall 1.6.2, Copyright 2009 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran This software is released under the GNU GPL. ***************************************** **** Debian package creation selected *** ***************************************** *** Warning: The package name "%PACKAGE_NAME" contains upper case *** Warning: letters. dpkg might not like that so I changed *** Warning: them to lower case. *** Warning: The package name "%package_name" does not start with *** Warning: an alphanumetic character. dpkg might not like that so I prefixed *** Warning: it with a number 0. *** Warning: The package name "0%package_name" contains illegal *** Warning: characters. dpkg might not like that so I changed *** Warning: them to dashes. *** Warning: The package version "%PACKAGE_VERSION" is not a *** Warning: debian policy compliant one. Please specify an alternate one I let it continue to run, but eventually it offers to show me the log, which appears here: dpkg-deb: error: parsing file '/var/tmp/tmp.J1ZMR3Tl3Q/package/DEBIAN/control' near line 11 package '0-package-name': empty value for version /var/tmp/tmp.J1ZMR3Tl3Q/dpkgbuild.log (END) Is this enough information for someone to help me? - Paul Schrum Raleigh, NC, US
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