[GRASS5] 5.7 - GIS manager - zoom and pan - change term to execute in d.m.tcl

[Michael Barton]

This seems like a more comprehensive solution to an issue that might crop up
elsewhere.

Michael


On 10/20/04 9:12 AM, "Paul Kelly" <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> The advantange of using term instead of run is that it pops up a separate
>> xterm, that is specific to that command, is uncluttered by GRASS command
>> line input and output, and goes away when the command is finished. However,
>> if this doesn't work on some systems, run will do the same thing, but in the
>> GRASS command line xterm.
>> 
>> I am OK with reverting all these commands back to run, but wonder if there
>> is some kind of bigger issue to be fixed for which this is the tip of a
>> digital iceberg?
> 
> Is this the LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue? This message:
> http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2004-September/015412.html
> explains the issue very well and even gives the solution: create a script
> #!/bin/sh
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$GISBASE/lib"
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> exec "$@"
> 
> This would need to be held in the source tree as a shell script source,
> then at compile time the Makefile could run a sed command to replace
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH_VAR with the name of the variable as used on the
> particular system (DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH for Mac OSX and PATH for Cygwin are
> the only two different ones I've come across). See the Makefile for
> lib/init for an example of this.
> As Glynn suggested, ${GISBASE}/etc/grass-run.sh would be a good location
> and name for the short script.
> 
> Paul
> 

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