On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Glynn Clements <[email protected]> wrote: > > Markus Neteler wrote: > >> > r39731 re-wrote it to use $host. Rather than trying to figure out the >> > correct $host value for each possible system (few of which were >> > available for testing), the sections for "unused" systems were >> > removed, with the intent that they would be added if and when someone >> > with access to such a system was able to report the correct $host >> > value and which compiler/linker switches actually worked on that >> > system. >> >> ... your help would be needed to re-enable AIX support. > > The main thing that's needed is someone with: > > 1. Knowledge of the correct $host string for that platform (this can > be obtained by running the config.guess script).
Or simply running ./configure and report the error. Users trying to compile GRASS are, according to the official documentation, advised to run ./configure <optional custom options> make make install > > 2. Knowledge of which compiler and linker switches are required to > build shared libraries on that platform. > > 3. Access to the platform, for testing. > > Each new platform needs to define the following variables: > > LDFLAGS > LD_SEARCH_FLAGS > LD_LIBRARY_PATH_VAR > > SHLIB_CFLAGS > SHLIB_LD > SHLIB_LD_FLAGS > SHLIB_SUFFIX > > STLIB_LD > STLIB_SUFFIX > > STLIB_LD and STLIB_SUFFIX have sensible defaults (building static > libraries tends to be the same on all systems). The others only really > matter for building shared libraries (LDFLAGS is also used for > building executables, but it can normally be empty). > I would like to see support for at least FreeBSD (BSD is the predecessor of nearly all current operating systems), IBM AIX (a commercial unix-based OS), and HP-UX (another commercial unix-based OS). If we can adjust the G7 configure script to compile G7 on IBM AIX and HP-UX, we would be to my knowledge the only GIS package available for these high-performance operating systems, and I assume that we want G7 to be available on commercial high-performance operating systems. Markus M _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
