[GRASS5] MacOS X binaries dependencies

[Jeshua Lacock]

>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....


Take it easy,

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Jeshua Lacock
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