[GRASS5] Re: TCLTKGRASS broken on Linux

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> > I recently checked the updates in 5.0.3 and found
> > that due to quoted variables in "tcltkgrass" shell
> > script
> > (your diff to 1.10) these variables are null elsewhere
> > thus nothing works in picking features in tcltkgrass
> > boxes.
> > It's 7.3 RedHat with 8.3 Tcl/Tk on my box.
> 
> thanks for pointing this out - on Redhat 7.3 it works...
> 
> grass/src/tcltkgrass/tcltkgrass,v
> retrieving revision 1.10
> retrieving revision 1.11
> diff -r1.10 -r1.11
> 12,14c12,14
> < set env(GISDBASE) [exec g.gisenv get=GISDBASE]
> < set env(LOCATION_NAME) [exec g.gisenv get=LOCATION_NAME]
> < set env(MAPSET) [exec g.gisenv get=MAPSET]
> ---
> > set env(GISDBASE) [exec g.gisenv get="GISDBASE"]
> > set env(LOCATION_NAME) [exec g.gisenv get="LOCATION_NAME"]
> > set env(MAPSET) [exec g.gisenv get="MAPSET"]
> 
> Is this change wrong?

Yes.

> Should it be 
> get=\"LOCATION_NAME\"
> etc instead?

No; it should be as it was before, without quotes.

Tcl is not the Bourne shell. Even if it was, those changes would be
unnecessary, as what was being quoted were variable names, not
variable values (with a dollar sign).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>