[GRASS5] MacOS X binaries dependencies

Markus Neteler neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de
Thu Nov 23 17:29:01 EST 2000


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.

Hope this helps

 Markus

(going to sleep now)


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