[GRASS-dev] GRASS on OS X El Capitan - slowly dying or is something happening?

Thu Jan 21 06:49:25 PST 2016

William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> writes:

> Right, forgot about that part in make (even though I pointed it out previously).
>
> Yeah, that would be messy - it would have to compile with the
> temporary path, then use install_name_tool at install to change all
> the paths.  This is where I got stalled with figuring out loops and
> lists of modules and libraries in make.
>
> Another option that may be simpler is to move the doc generation to
> install, then everything runs from the install path.

This should work, but I have to check it.

This is would be the simplest solution, even though I don't know
how I can compile without doc generation? What would be the make target
than? I assume that the console help would still be htere as it is
inherent in the module's executable.

Rainer

>
>> On Jan 21, 2016, at 3:01 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
>> 
>> William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> writes:
>> 
>>> There are a couple ideas floating around.
>>> 
>>> I'm surprised Homebrew has a problem.  Since it would leave everything
>>> in the configured location (/usr/local), there should not be library
>>> paths pointing somewhere else that would need DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to
>>> divert.
>> 
>> homebrew is compiling in a temporary location, and than installing it to
>> /usr/local/Cellar/.
>> 
>> The problem is the same why I had to install and than compile again:
>> 
>> ,----
>> | bash-4.3$ make
>> | if [
>> | "/private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/scripts/d.out.file"
>> | != "" ] ; then
>> | GISRC=/private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/demolocation/.grassrc70
>> | GISBASE=/private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0
>> | PATH="/private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/bin:/private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/bin:/private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/scripts:$PATH"
>> | PYTHONPATH="/private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/etc/python:/private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/gui/wxpython:$PYTHONPATH"
>> | DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/bin:/private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/scripts:/private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/lib:/private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/lib:"
>> | LC_ALL=C
>> | /private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/scripts/d.out.file
>> | --html-description < /dev/null | grep -v '</body>\|</html>' >
>> | d.out.file.tmp.html ; fi
>> | dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/grass-70/7.0.1/grass-7.0.1/lib/libgrass_gis.7.0.1.dylib
>> |   Referenced from:
>> | /private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/bin/g.parser
>> |   Reason: image not found
>> | make: *** [d.out.file.tmp.html] Error 1
>> | rm d.out.file.tmp.html
>> | bash-4.3$
>> `----
>> 
>> During make, the html documentation is created. For this,
>> libgrass_gis.7.0.1.dylib is needed. It is already compiled, but not
>> installed.
>> 
>> It is in
>> 
>> ,----
>> | bash-4.3$ ls -la
>> | /private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/lib/libgrass_gis*
>> | -rwxr-xr-x 1 rainerkrug wheel 218244 Jan 21 09:37
>> | /private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/lib/libgrass_gis.7.0.1.dylib
>> | lrwxr-xr-x 1 rainerkrug wheel 24 Jan 21 09:37
>> | /private/tmp/grass-7020160121-38274-ed29gx/grass-7.0.1/dist.x86_64-apple-darwin15.2.0/lib/libgrass_gis.dylib
>> | -> libgrass_gis.7.0.1.dylib
>> | bash-4.3$
>> `----
>> 
>> And I assume the path where it is located is in the DYNLIB_ variable
>> which is ignored.
>> 
>> This problem should be solvable, when somehow the path to the compiled
>> (but not installed) could be temporarily added during the make.
>> 
>> Any suggestions how this could be done?
>> 
>> Rainer
>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 20, 2016, at 8:37 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry for this blunt subject - but I am wondering if anybody is looking
>>>> at supporting El Capitan without having to disable SIP (System Integrity
>>>> Protection). SIP is likely to stay, and for many (including myself)
>>>> disabling SIP is not really an option as it goes to deep into the OS.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> So my personal opinion: if GRASS want's to stay relevant on OS X, a
>>>> solution needs to be found to compile and install it on a mac as easy
>>>> as it was before (homebrew, which I relly like, and also the frameworks
>>>> From  William Kyngesburye and michael Barton?)
>>>> 
>>>> I mean - I have found a way of compiling GRASS 7.1 (see my post from the
>>>> 07 January in the topic "SUCCESS (running): Compiling grass 7 svn trunk
>>>> on OS X El Capitan") which gives me a working GRASS GIS including GUI,
>>>> but this is not really a solution.
>>>> 
>>>> I asked for help but did not get any response (subject "grass 7 svn
>>>> trunk on OS X El Capitan - need help").
>>>> 
>>>> So I would like to know if somebody would be prepared to help or at
>>>> least tell me if I am following the wrong track. I am not very
>>>> experienced in compiling / linking / make files but I have a basic
>>>> understanding.
>>>> 
>>>> I simply refuse to accept that GRASS will die for OSX users (>= El
>>>> Capitan).
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Rainer
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
>>>> Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
>>>> 
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>>>> South Africa
>>>> 
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>>> 
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>>> 
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