Dockerfile

-FROM ubuntu:16.04
-
-MAINTAINER Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus@gmail.com>
+FROM ubuntu:18.04
 
+LABEL authors="Vaclav Petras,Markus Neteler"
+LABEL maintainer="wenzeslaus@gmail.com,neteler@osgeo.org"
+ 
 # system environment
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
 
@@ -10,13 +11,8 @@ ENV DATA_DIR /data
 
 # GRASS GIS compile dependencies
 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y --install-recommends \
-        autoconf2.13 \
-        autotools-dev \
-        bison \
-        flex \
-        g++ \
-        gettext \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests \
+        build-essential \
         libblas-dev \
         libbz2-dev \
         libcairo2-dev \
@@ -25,11 +21,15 @@ RUN apt-get update \
         libgdal-dev \
         libgeos-dev \
         libglu1-mesa-dev \
+        libgsl0-dev \
         libjpeg-dev \
         liblapack-dev \
+        liblas-dev \
         liblas-c-dev \
         libncurses5-dev \
         libnetcdf-dev \
+        libopenjp2-7 \
+        libopenjp2-7-dev \
         libpng-dev \
         libpq-dev \
         libproj-dev \
@@ -37,20 +37,34 @@ RUN apt-get update \
         libsqlite3-dev \
         libtiff-dev \
         libxmu-dev \
+        bison \
+        flex \
+        g++ \
+        gettext \
+        gdal-bin \
+        libfftw3-bin \
         make \
+        ncurses-bin \
         netcdf-bin \
         proj-bin \
+        proj-data \
         python \
         python-dev \
         python-numpy \
         python-pil \
         python-ply \
+        sqlite3 \
+        subversion \
         unixodbc-dev \
         zlib1g-dev \
     && apt-get autoremove \
     && apt-get clean && \
     mkdir -p $DATA_DIR
 
+RUN echo LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > /etc/default/locale
+ENV LANG C.UTF-8
+ENV LC_ALL C.UTF-8
+
 RUN mkdir /code
 RUN mkdir /code/grass
 
@@ -59,36 +73,58 @@ COPY . /code/grass
 
 WORKDIR /code/grass
 
-# install GRASS GIS
+# Set gcc/g++ environmental variables for GRASS GIS compilation, without debug symbols
+ENV MYCFLAGS "-O2 -march=native -std=gnu99 -m64"
+ENV MYLDFLAGS "-s"
+# CXX stuff:
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH "/usr/local/lib"
+ENV LDFLAGS "$MYLDFLAGS"
+ENV CFLAGS "$MYCFLAGS"
+ENV CXXFLAGS "$MYCXXFLAGS"
+
+# Configure, compile and install GRASS GIS
+ENV NUMTHREADS=2
 RUN ./configure \
-    --enable-largefile=yes \
-    --with-nls \
+    --enable-largefile \
     --with-cxx \
+    --with-nls \
     --with-readline \
+    --with-sqlite \
     --with-bzlib \
-    --with-pthread \
-    --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
+    --with-cairo --with-cairo-ldflags=-lfontconfig \
+    --with-freetype --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
+    --with-fftw \
+    --with-netcdf \
+    --with-liblas --with-liblas-config=/usr/bin/liblas-config \
+    --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
     --with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config \
-    --with-cairo \
+    --with-postgres --with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql" \
     --with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL \
-    --with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
-    --with-sqlite=yes \
-    --with-liblas=yes --with-liblas-config=/usr/bin/liblas-config \
-    && make -j2 && make install && ldconfig
+    && make -j $NUMTHREADS && make install && ldconfig
 
 # enable simple grass command regardless of version number
 RUN ln -s /usr/local/bin/grass* /usr/local/bin/grass
 
+# Reduce the image size
+RUN apt-get autoremove -y
+RUN apt-get clean -y
+
+# set SHELL var to avoid /bin/sh fallback in interactive GRASS GIS sessions in docker
+ENV SHELL /bin/bash
+
 # Fix permissions
 RUN chmod -R a+rwx $DATA_DIR
 
 # create a user
 RUN useradd -m -U grass
 
-# declare volume late so permissions apply
+# declare data volume late so permissions apply
 VOLUME $DATA_DIR
 WORKDIR $DATA_DIR
 
+# Further reduce the docker image size 
+RUN rm -rf /code/grass
+
 # switch the user
 USER grass
 

debian/control

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Build-Depends: autoconf2.13,
                libtiff-dev,
                libwxgtk3.0-dev,
                libxmu-dev,
+               lsb-release,
                netcdf-bin,
 # install optipng if compressing the PNG images in the programmers' manual
 #              optipng,
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ Build-Depends: autoconf2.13,
                python-wxgtk3.0,
                unixodbc-dev,
                zlib1g-dev
-Standards-Version: 4.1.4
+Standards-Version: 4.2.1
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/grass
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/grass.git -b experimental
 Homepage: http://grass.osgeo.org/