Re: [DebianGIS] GRASS not building on sparc, remove --with-glw from ./configure line
On 8/15/07, Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I notice the grass package is held up in unstable[1] as it is not up to
> date on sparc[2]. The problem appears to be some trouble with finding
> the GLw includes during the ./configure step.
Probably a missing build-depend on libglw1-mesa-dev
> No idea why that might be. However there is no need to compile with GLw
> support, as GLw is not needed by any [activated] modules[3]. So --with-glw
> can be safely removed from the ./configure line without affecting
> functionality.
>
> [3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/19079
Since r3.showdspf is depreciated in favour of NVIS, dropping GLw seems fine.
> Also, what is the policy of backporting minor bugfixes? 6.2.2 shipped
> with a bug in the scripts/d.slide.show/d.slide.show shell script that
> renders the module unusable. The patch[4] is just removes the "--quiet"
> command line parameters.
The patch also removes the echoing of $i. Generally patches fixing
bugs should be applied as long as they aren't buggy themselves.
--
bye,
pabs
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