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author | Pierre Cazenave <pwcazenave at gmail {dot} com> | 2010-04-09 00:39:24 -0500 |
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committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-15 10:25:51 +0200 |
commit | b0cf53300c3b2180c913897bb56e9bc6cea2d7fd (patch) | |
tree | fada702526b9479b0afd604a1fd1806e149f6bb5 /academic/GMT/README | |
parent | ce1299fd2cd43fcce63f70cce18c4432950f8725 (diff) |
academic/GMT: Updated for version 4.5.2.
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diff --git a/academic/GMT/README b/academic/GMT/README index 208c1305d5503..e212b209bf1bc 100644 --- a/academic/GMT/README +++ b/academic/GMT/README @@ -10,44 +10,24 @@ H. F. Smith with help from a global set of volunteers, and is supported by the National Science Foundation. It is released under the GNU General Public License. -GMT requires netcdf, available at SlackBuilds.org. +This requires netcdf. + +There are a number of different resolution coastline files available for +GMT, and their size on disk varies from <2MB (low) to 61.7MB (full). +They come in 3 separate archives: + GSHHS2.0.2_coast.tar.bz2 GSHHS2.0.2_high.tar.bz2 GSHHS2.0.2_full.tar.bz2 + +The first contains the low, intermediate and coarse resolutions, the second +the high resolution, and the third the full resolution. I prefer to have all +of them installed (disk space is cheap), but you may not. Therefore, all +three sets will be installed by default unless you choose otherwise in the +script, e.g. setting "COASTS=coast" in the environment would install only the +low, intermediate, and coarse resolutions. + +Please note, Shewchuk's triangulation routine used in some parts of GMT is +not distributed under the GNU Public Licence. If you work for a for-profit +organisation, you should read Shewchuk's copyright statement first (in +src/README.TRIANGLE). This script enables the (much faster) Shewchuk +triangulation routine by default; should you need to change this behaviour, +set SHEWCHUK to "no" in the build script. -In order to build GMT, there are a number of required archives: - -GMT4.5.1_doc.tar.bz2 -GMT4.5.1_share.tar.bz2 -GMT4.5.1_src.tar.bz2 -GMT4.5.1_suppl.tar.bz2 -GMT4.5.1_triangle.tar.bz2 (if you require Shewchuk's triangulation -routine (see below)). - -These must all be downloaded and placed in the same directory as the -SlackBuild script (as with any source). - -There are a number of different resolution coastline files available -for GMT, and their size on disk varies from <2MB (low) to 61.7MB -(full). They come in 3 separate archives: - -GSHHS2.0.1_coast.tar.bz2 -GSHHS2.0.1_high.tar.bz2 -GSHHS2.0.1_full.tar.bz2 - -The first contains the low, intermediate and coarse resolutions, -the second the high resolution, and the third the full resolution. I -prefer to have all of them installed (disk space is cheap), but you -may not. Therefore, by default, all three sets will be installed, -unless you choose otherwise in the script. e.g. ${COASTS:-"coast"} -would install only the low, intermediate and coarse resolutions. A -minimum of GSHHS2.0.1_coast.tar.bz2 is required. - -To download all the files, the following works: -wget \ - ftp://ftp.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/GMT4.5.1_{doc,share,src,suppl,triangle}.tar.bz2 \ - ftp://ftp.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/GSHHS2.0.1_{full,coast,high}.tar.bz2 - -Please note, Shewchuk's triangulation routine used in some parts of -GMT is not distributed under the GNU Public Licence. If you work for a -for-profit organisation, you should read Shewchuk's copyright statement -(in $TMP/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/src/README.TRIANGLE) first. This script enables -the (much faster) Shewchuk triangulation routine by default; should you -need to change this behaviour, set SHEWCHUK to "no" in the build script. |