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Re: [Pkg-grass-general] Re: Bug#264566: Any progress on grass 5.7?



On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:51:43PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:37:38PM +0200, Silke Reimer wrote:
> > OK. Now back the the grass/gdal problem:
> > Indeed the problem is that I need the grass development package for
> > gdal to be build against grass. Otherwise we need gdal to build
> > grass with general gdal support (i.e. with support for other raster
> > and vector formats).
> > 
> > So the build order is
> > - create grass development libraries
> > - build gdal
> > - build grass
> > 
> > Since I can not make gdal build depend on grass and grass build
> > depend on gdal in the same time  I only see one solution to get both
> > pacakges in a clean way into debian:
> > 
> > grass is splitted into two completely independent packages. The
> > first one is just meant to build the development packages
> > (libgrass-dev) and doesn't create any binary packages at all. The
> > second one does build grass and libgrass.
> > 
> 
> Of course there is also another approach,
> that is including gdal source in grass source and 
> creating the whole packages set from there (i.e. grass and gdal ones)
> 
> > Disadvantage:
> > - The grass src will be included twice in debian :-(
> > 
> > Other suggestions? Am I overlooking something?
> > 
> 
> IF grass-dev would be splittable in original tarball easy that could be
> nice: we would have two different sources for grass and grass-dev.

Good points. Perhaps we could even split up a grass-dev source from
the original grass tarball and just adding this to gdal. Thus we
don't have to introduce a new package into grass.

Steve, do you know how easy it is to split up grass in such a way?

	Silke

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Silke Reimer

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