[GRASS-dev] nviz compile errors on Mac OS X

[William Kyngesburye]

On Sep 14, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

> Not quite. Normally, I let make install simply overwrite my existing  
> grass app. That way, if I have any new files I'm working on, it just  
> ignores them. I also don't have to make a new image for the dock.  
> Once in awhile, there is a problem with this, however. I decided to  
> rename my existing app and let make install create a totally new one  
> (bindist did the same thing of course). In this new app, nviz no  
> longer crashes Python, but simply does nothing.
>
OK, we can ignore bindist then, if a clean install doesn't crash.

>> None of that. I select the nviz setting in the display and  
>> absolutely nothing happens. I haven't checked yet, but I'm  
>> wondering about the problem I'm having with vdigit--i.e., not  
>> finding the *.so file. Perhaps there is a hard-coded path in  
>> vdigit.py and nviz.py that has them looking for files in the wrong  
>> place.
>
> Maybe Martin can tell us. I'll look at the files too.
>
Probably not.  I'm not having any .so-finding problems.  More likely  
it's a problem in the sys.path.


One test to see if it's a compilation or runtime problem - here's my  
build from my Mini for MacPython and the latest wxpython:

http://www.kyngchaos.com/files/software/unixport/GRASS-6.4.pkg.zip

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