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

[Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com>]

[Debian]
> 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.
> 
> Disadvantage:
> - The grass src will be included twice in debian :-(
> 
> Other suggestions? Am I overlooking something?

I think we may be overlooking something:


It was my understanding that with the latest version of gdal 1.2.3 (not
yet in debian) that Radim's patches had been applied and the conflict no
longer existed. I am not sure though? guys?


Hamish