[GRASS5] MacOS X binaries dependencies

Markus Neteler neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de
Thu Nov 23 08:13:55 EST 2000


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

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