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2 Installation from source code

For the case that it is necessary to compile the source code of the GRASS versions 5.4 6.0your own computer, we shortly want to explain this procedure with an example. It should be taken into account that this requires a little experience in compiling as well as studying of the installation helps for installing GRASS without any problems in the required version.

The compiling and the installation is conducted with the ``rule of proportion'', which is common for Unix after the downloaded source code is unpacked.

./configure [...]
make
make install

Thereby, it needs to be considered that the pathes of additional programs and libraries must also be indicated when entering the command ./configure. An example for keeping GDAL and PostgreSQL support could be the following:

./configure --with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
--with-postgres-includes='/usr/include/pgsql /usr/include/pgsql/server/'\
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib
make
make install

A detailed description of the configuration parameters offers the command './configure -help'.

Examples of configurations can be downloaded from the Website of the GDF Hannover bR (9) under http://www.gdf-hannover.de/download or from the GRASS Homepage (12).