[GRASS5] MacOS X binaries dependencies

[Markus Neteler]

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).

Thanks in advance

 Markus

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