[GRASS-dev] Re: gis.m/d.m don't background on OSX

[Hamish]

William Kyngesburye wrote:
> 
> The recent change to init.sh to not explicitly background doesn't  
> appear to work on OSX (X11 build).
> 
> if [ "$osxaqua" ] ; then
> 	"$GISBASE/scripts/gis.m" | sh &
> else
> 	"$GISBASE/scripts/gis.m"
> fi	
> 
> An Aqua build still explicitly backgrounds, but not an X11 build.   
> And the backgrounding within gis.m/d.m doesn't happen.


I made that change as the d.m and gis.m scripts background themselves:


gui/tcltk/gis.m/gis.m:
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[...]
if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
        if [ "$HOSTTYPE" = "macintosh" -o "$HOSTTYPE" = "powermac" -o "$HOSTTYPE" = "powerpc" -o "$HOSTTYPE" = "intel-pc" ] ; then
                exec "$GRASS_WISH" $GISBASE/etc/gm/gm.tcl -name gm_tcl
        else
                exec "$GRASS_WISH" $GISBASE/etc/gm/gm.tcl -name gm_tcl &
        fi
        exit
fi

if [ "$1" != "@ARGS_PARSED@" ] ; then
  exec g.parser "$0" "$@"
fi

exec "$GRASS_WISH" "$GISBASE/etc/gm/gm.tcl" -name gm_tcl "$GIS_OPT_GRC" sh &

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gui/tcltk/d.m/d.m is much the same.


before randomly adding "&" back in, I'd like to understand why it fails.
These platform tests seems slighly messy to me.


Hamish