Hi Zoltan, On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 4:09 PM Zoltan <zolt...@geograph.co.za> wrote: > > 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.
Indeed, it was there, but not in the right position. I have (hopefully) amended that now: https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/commit/6c55820a90f64a2e1573a81eb23447a552515a9e > (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) Agreed but there are so many supported operating systems that the INSTALL file would become too long. > 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 For changes this file needs to be edited: https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/blob/6c55820a90f64a2e1573a81eb23447a552515a9e/configure.in#L1735 .. but I am not quite sure if that's possible at all since messages may be created by "autoconf-2.13" which generated configure from configure.in. Maybe others here have suggestions how to improve the current (message) situation? Best, Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
