[GRASS5] MacOS X binaries dependencies

Jeshua Lacock jeshua at SierraMaps.com
Thu Nov 23 02:56:42 EST 2000


On Wednesday, November 22, 2000, at 11:43 PM, Justin Hickey wrote:

> > > > Sorry, </usr/local/grass-5.0b/dev/fifo.1a> not available 
> > > > Have GRASS administrator check etc/monitorcap file 
> > > > 
> > > > What other files might tcltkgrass may be dependent on?? 
> > > 
> > > Hmmm. Did you use the installation script grass5install.sh? This 
> > > script is supposed to create the fifos. 
> >  
> > Yessir!  Uh-oh! 
>  
> In that case, please do an ls -Fla in the directory 
> /usr/local/grass-5.0b/dev/ 
>  
> It should look something like this: 
>  
> prw-rw-rw-    1 jhickey  hpcc           0 Oct  9 11:53 fifo.17b| 
> prw-rw-rw-    1 jhickey  hpcc           0 Oct  9 11:53 fifo.18a| 
> prw-rw-rw-    1 jhickey  hpcc           0 Oct  9 11:53 fifo.18b| 
> prw-rw-rw-    1 jhickey  hpcc           0 Oct  9 11:53 fifo.19a| 
> prw-rw-rw-    1 jhickey  hpcc           0 Oct  9 11:53 fifo.19b| 
> prw-rw-rw-    1 jhickey  hpcc           0 Oct 17 16:10 fifo.1a| 
> prw-rw-rw-    1 jhickey  hpcc           0 Oct 17 16:10 fifo.1b| 
>  
> If they do look like this, then compare the directory paths in 
> etc/monitorcap with /usr/local/grass-5.0b/dev/. They should be the same. 
>  


Thanks Justin!  It turns out that (for whatever reason)  grass was installed at /usr/local/grass5.

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;)


Cheers,

Jeshua Lacock
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