[Freegis-list] FreeGIS on RedHat 7.1

[Andreas Lange]

Hi Daniel,

i once tried to build a re-locatable GRASS rpm. But this does not work
right now, there are internal requirements of GRASS that prevent this
(e. g. hardcoded paths in driver setup files). 

It will not be possible to put the man etc. directories under the fssntd
locations, as all these directories must reside under the grass main
directory for the grass modules to be able to find the files. Please
look at the sources and documentation of grass to find out more. 

Why not creating a setup with symbolic links? Link your /opt residing
under / to /usr/opt and move over any directories already there. 

HTH,

Andreas

Daniel Tourde wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I have just bought the FreeGIS 1.1 CD. I am planning to install the
> tools available on this CD on my RedHat 7.1 machines. I am interested in
> this CD by the source codes AND especially by the .spec files to
> regenerate and update the binaries by myself.
> 
> I have a problem with Grass5 (the first one I tried) as it is packed for
> the moment. Everything is put under /opt/grass and I don't have enough
> place on my / directory to get the whole stuff installed. Besides, I
> prefer to have things installed under /usr. I was planning to modify the
> .spec file, replacing prefix=/opt/grass by prefix=/usr, but I discovered
> the existence of the following directories:
> 
> %dir /opt/grass/grass5
> %dir /opt/grass/grass5/bin
> %dir /opt/grass/grass5/documents
> %dir /opt/grass/grass5/documents/html
> %dir /opt/grass/grass5/driver
> %dir /opt/grass/grass5/etc
> %dir /opt/grass/grass5/etc/bin
> %dir /opt/grass/grass5/etc/bin/cmd
> %dir /opt/grass/grass5/man
> %dir /opt/grass/grass5/man/man1
> %dir /opt/grass/grass5/tcltkgrass
> %dir /opt/grass/grass5/tcltkgrass/module
> 
> I think that to stick to the RedHat 7.1 structure some of these
> directories should be moved around (man, bin? etc?...). Unfortunately, I
> don't really know how they are interacting with each others and how I
> could with the ./configure options, get something clean and usable. I
> tried --with-fssntd=redhat but it did not work.
> 
> Could you please help me and tell me what these directories countain,
> where they would be stored on a RedHat machine and how ./configure
> should be parametrized in this spirit.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
>                 Daniel Tourde
> 
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