[GRASS-SVN] r30189 - in grass/trunk/gui/wxpython: . gui_modules

[svn_grass at osgeo.org]

Author: martinl
Date: 2008-02-16 12:32:47 -0500 (Sat, 16 Feb 2008)
New Revision: 30189

Modified:
   grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/README
   grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/gui_modules/digit.py
Log:
wxGUI: README fixed (use LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead of /lib). Error message for missing vdigit more detailed.

Modified: grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/README
===================================================================
--- grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/README	2008-02-16 17:05:27 UTC (rev 30188)
+++ grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/README	2008-02-16 17:32:47 UTC (rev 30189)
@@ -144,13 +144,18 @@
 
 First, create a symlink to _gdi_.so shared library
 
-$ ln -s `locate _gdi_.so` $GISBASE/lib/libgdi.so
+$ sudo ln -s `locate _gdi_.so` /usr/local/lib/libgdi.so
 
 e.g.
 
-$ ln -s /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_gdi_.so $GISBASE/lib/libgdi.so
+$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_gdi_.so /usr/local/lib/libgdi.so
 
+Make sure you set up LD_LIBRARY_PATH or noted '/usr/local/lib' in
+/etc/ld.so.conf.
+
+$ sudo ldconfig
+
 Then you can compile the driver
 
-$ cd $GISBASE/etc/wxpython/vdigit
+$ cd gui/wxpython/vdigit
 $ make

Modified: grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/gui_modules/digit.py
===================================================================
--- grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/gui_modules/digit.py	2008-02-16 17:05:27 UTC (rev 30188)
+++ grass/trunk/gui/wxpython/gui_modules/digit.py	2008-02-16 17:32:47 UTC (rev 30189)
@@ -184,8 +184,10 @@
 
         try:
             ret = self.driver.Reset(self.map)
-        except:
-            raise gcmd.DigitError('Unable to initialize display driver, see README file for more information.')
+        except StandardError, e:
+            raise gcmd.DigitError('Unable to initialize display driver, '
+                                  'see README file for more information.%s%s'
+                                  'Details: %s' % (os.linesep, os.linesep, e))
         
         if map and ret == -1:
             raise gcmd.DigitError(_('Unable to open vector map <%s> for editing. The vector map is probably broken. '