Hi Markus,
OK, I am now logged into the Ubuntu system I used, and can better trace
what I did.
I started my research at
https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/previewbranch_8_0/INSTALL
Under "Prerequisite/Installation order" I installed/compiled gdal with
ecw, and installed postgres.
I then did a ./configure (without extra parameters) and tried to bumble
my way through the errors I was getting.
I fired off my initial email to grass-dev as I was not finding the solution.
I then found the grass-wiki recipe and corrected the problems by
copy/paste the ./configure for Ubuntu 20.04
So, a few thoughts from my side.
* In the github install (all versions of grass), add a pointer to the
grasswiki page, especially at the ./configure paragraph. (I would
find it more reliable and easy to manage a link to one source of
info, than to copy the source into contents of other documents)
* Amend the configure script error message to suggest the that the
with-XXX-includes= parameter should be used, instead of just:
configure: error: *** Unable to locate FreeType includes.
* As most apt installed products go to specific directories, is it
possible to let the configure script not first try a few obvious
places before crashing with the error message? If they are not 'apt
installed', then they likely go to /usr/*local/*XXX
HTH, and thanks again for your persistence.
Regards,
Zoltan
On 2021/06/21 13:32, Markus Neteler wrote:
Hi Zoltan,
Where would you expect this info, i.e. a link to the wiki?
Maybe we can improve things :)
Best
Markus
Zoltan <zolt...@geograph.co.za <mailto:zolt...@geograph.co.za>>
schrieb am Mo., 21. Juni 2021, 12:11:
Hi Markus/Māris,
Thanks for your interest.
@Māris: I did provide the log tail-end on my first post.
@Markus: I started off the process using Google/Duck-Duck-Go to
piece together what info I needed, as I wanted ECW support and one
or two other add-ons.
Far too many websites offering help, come up.
I read through a couple but only later the Grasswiki you referred
to below - and then only noticing the with-XXX-includes folder
directives.
my bad :-(
Regards and keep well,
Zoltan
*On 2021-06-21 07:20, Maris Nartiss wrote:*
Please include relevant part of configure.log where exact reasons of
failure will be seen.
Māris.
*On 2021-06-20 18:42, Markus Neteler wrote:*
Hi Zoltan,
On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 12:36 PM Zoltan<zolt...@geograph.co.za>
<mailto:zolt...@geograph.co.za> wrote:
Hi Devs,
Sorted!
The correct folder(s) were:
-with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2
(Had to add the freetype include folder as well)
Glad you solved it.
BTW, there is a wiki page with hints:
https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#Quick_instructions
<https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu#Quick_instructions>
Please feel free to improve it as needed.
Best
Markus
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