[GRASS-dev] [bug #4960] (grass) gis.m has menu entries for nonexisting modules

[Michael Barton]

This should be a wish, not a bug.

Nice idea to have autogenerated menus. I've floated it a time or two and
others have mentioned it too. Maybe someone knows how to do it.

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

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> Date: Thu,  3 Aug 2006 13:52:39 +0200 (CEST)
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> Subject: [GRASS-dev] [bug #4960] (grass) gis.m has menu entries for
> nonexisting modules
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> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=4960
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> Subject: gis.m has menu entries for nonexisting modules
> 
> Platform: GNU/Linux/x86
> grass obtained from: Trento Italy site
> grass binary for platform: Compiled from Sources
> GRASS Version: 6.1.0RC1
> 
> gis.m menus contain menu entries for modules which are missing for some
> reason.
> 
> i.e. if I compile grass without C++, I don't have r.terraflow, but I sill
> will have menu entry for it.
> 
> Couldn't there be something like script which runs after all module
> compilation (before make install?) and masks unavailable module entries?
> Logic like "if (! `ls dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin | grep
> menu.tcl.module["foo"]`) then disable(comment out)". As I'm not scripting
> guru, I can't write such script.
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