Creating a SysV package for GRASS on Solaris 8
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Author: Andreas Lange, andreas.lange@rhein-main.de


The package is _not_ relocatable and must be build from the final
destination directory, because the paths in the installation are hard-coded.
One could construct a postinstall-script that uses sed to change the paths
in the monitorcap file, but i did not try this. There are several other
files where the path is hardcoded. On Solaris all optional packages should
be installed under /opt, so i see no reason to make the package relocatable.

The base directory is /opt, all installation is below /opt/GNUgrass. 

Install this package as root with:
gunzip ./GNUgrass-sparc.pkg.gz 
pkgadd -d ./GNUgrass-sparc.pkg

To give all users access to GRASS 5 put 
/opt/GNUgrass/bin in the path for the users, e. g.:
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/GNUgrass/bin
or add the path to the system wide or users .profile file. 

Now you should be able to start grass with:
grass5

Alternatively you can create a link with:
ln -s /opt/GNUgrass/bin/grass5 /usr/local/bin/grass5
or similar. 

If you have installed the libraries in a directory which is not in the
default library search path (e. g. /opt/sfw/lib) you may: 

1) create softlinks to /usr/lib 
2) export LD_LIBRARY_PATH before starting grass, from a configuration file,
like .profile
3) add the directories system-wide to the search path, e. g. use crle -u -l
/local/lib to add the path to the configuration file /var/ld/ld.conf, see
/man ld.so.1 and man crle for more details.


pkginfo file:
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see pkginfo in this directory. 

Compare man pkginfo, pkgproto, pkgmk, pkgtrans. 


makefile for building the pkg-file:
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see makefile-pgk in this directory. 

On Solaris/i386 change ARCH to i386 or i86. 


Rebuilding the package:

First unpack source code of grass, next configure with:
./configure --prefix=/opt/GNUgrass \
-with-libs=/opt/sfw/lib --with-libs=/usr/local/lib \
--with-includes=/opt/sfw/include --with-includes=/usr/local/include \
--with-postgres=no --with-odbc=no \
--with-blas=no --with-motif=yes

(or similar for your installation) then make and make install.

Now change to this directory and simply do (as root!):

gmake -f makefile-pkg pkg

You will need a lot of disk space. After some time you'll find the file
GNUgrass-sparc.pkg.gz in this directory, which is the package. The
compressed file is about 40 MB with stripped binaries, the uncompressed pkg
file is about 90 MB big. The installation needs approximatly 100 MB space
on the /opt mount point. 


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