[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6 REALLY IS broken on Mac - bug identified

[Michael Barton]

The problem is that without the LANG= line, the GUI errors out and won't run. Previously, it did not require this line to run.

Michael

On Jul 25, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Hamish wrote:

> Michael wrote:
>> However, it will break everyone's GRASS 6 installation (at least on the
>> Mac) unless GRASS puts some kind of default into the .grassrc6
>> file--where it is looking for it--
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have no idea about the change that made this bug, but it should only add
> to the .grassrc6 file on demand, not by default. Whatever is falling over
> because that is not set should initially set itself to "LANG: C" internally
> as the default, and be able to deal with older mapsets where it was not
> set.
> 
> aka don't put some kind of default in there just as an easy fix, instead
> fix whatever can't deal with the value being missing to safely cope with
> that situation.
> 
> what version of 6.4? 6.4.3svn only? or is it in 6.4.2 too?
> 
> thanks,
> Hamish

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