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

[William Kyngesburye]

On Dec 17, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Hamish wrote:

> I made that change as the d.m and gis.m scripts background themselves:
>
>
> gui/tcltk/gis.m/gis.m:
> -----------------------
> [...]
> 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
>
But according to the logic there, it doesn't explicitly background on  
OSX ("macintosh", "powermac", "powerpc").  And apparently exec  
doesn't automatically background on OS X (the problem I noticed).

So maybe now the Mac exceptions in gis.m/d.m should be removed?


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