On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Glynn Clements <[email protected]> wrote: > Markus Neteler wrote: >> here at the FOSSGIS.de conference we tried to compile GRASS for Android. >> A major obstacle was XDR (e.g., >> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/extra/xdr). >> >> Since it is only 4 files (or perhaps less used), why not incorporating these >> files into the GRASS source code? > > FWIW, for the Cygwin build I used: > > http://code.google.com/p/bsd-xdr/ > > The simplest solution would just be to assume a "normal" architecture > (IEEE-754 representation for floats, two's-complement integers) and > scrap XDR completely.
This would be nice for GRASS 7. Unfortunately I have no idea how to do that. > Anyone wanting to run GRASS on a Vax[1] would > need to supply the appropriate code and integration effort. > > [1] Vax is the most common architecture which doesn't use IEEE-754 for > its native floating-point representation, and the only one which Sun's > XDR implementation supports. The "risk" to have users asking for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vax support is rather low I guess :) Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
