[GRASS5] MacOS X binaries dependencies

[Jeshua Lacock]

>On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 01:42:46PM -0800, Jeshua Lacock wrote:
>>  >On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 01:33:37PM -0800, Jeshua Lacock wrote:
>>  >>  >On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 02:21:49AM -0800, Jeshua Lacock wrote:
>>  >>  >>  >
>>  >>  >>  >  > I made a symbolic link  /usr/local/grass-5.0b  ->
>>  >>/usr/local/grass5
>>  >>  >>  >>  and it works!!
>>  >>  >>  >>  (Markus: can you please add this to the installation 
>>instructions?:
>>  >>  >>  >>  cd /usr/local; ln -s grass-5.0b grass5;)
>>  >>  >>  >
>>  >>  >>  >Actually, we need to find where the grass-5.0b is coming
>>  >>from. We made a
>>  >>  >>  >decision that it would be grassx where x is the current 
>>major version
>>  >>  >>  >number to simplify coding and decrease user confusion.
>>  >>  >>
>>  >>  >>  Yes, however since nearly 2000 people have download the OS X
>>  >>  >>  binaries, I think it would be useful to add the symbolic link to the
>>  >>  >>  instructions until beta 9 is posted.
>>  >>  >Jeshua,
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  >actually I don't understand the problem. We have a grass5b8_mac package
>>  >>  >and a grass5install.sh script. The script takes care where to install
>>  >>  >the package and generates the startup script depending on the install
>>  >>  >path. This works since month.
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  >Why this confusion? :-)
>>  >>  >
>>  >>
>>  >>  Markus,
>>  >>
>>  >>  That's all right, I don't understand either!!  ;-D
>>  >>
>>  >>  All I know it that the GUI will not work unless this symbolic link is
>>  >>  created....
>>  >Could you do me the favor, remove the link and send the error
>>  >message? Then we might fix it (if something has to be fixed).
>>  >
>>
>>  Markus,
>>
>>  d.mon says:
>>
>>  Sorry, </usr/local/grass-5.0b/dev/fifo.1a> not available
>>  Have GRASS administrator check etc/monitorcap file
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>  And I get this error because grass is installed at/usr/local/grass5/...
>
>I see. The /usr/local/grass5/etc/monitorcap references the wrong
>path. Please edit this file. Usually the settings are done on
>compile time. With current CVS it should be o.k.
>

Markus,

I can edit the file, but it will not help all of the people that 
downloaded the distribution.  Until beta 9 is released the best fix 
(IMHO) is to create a symbolic link..

(I'm back after a mini-holiday...)


Yours,
-- 
Jeshua Lacock
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