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