[GRASS-dev] [bug #5094] (grass) r.support from the GUI is broken

[Glynn Clements]

Brad Douglas wrote:

> > > If you launch r.support (r.support.sh actually) from the gis.m menu,
> > > you get to pick a map and then launch r.support in an xterm. As soon
> > > as you enter "y" or "n" at the prompt the xterm disappears. Replace
> > > "execute r.support.sh" with "term r.support" on line ~421 of menu.tcl
> > > for comparison with what should happen.
> > 
> > 
> > After some debugging:
> > 
> > if you answer "Y", it breaks in r.support/front/run.c run_etc_support():
> >     G_snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s/etc/support/%s '%s'",
> >              G_gisbase(), pgm, rast);
> > 
> > 
> > if you answer "N", it breaks in r.support/front/check.c check_stats()
> >     G_snprintf(question, sizeof(question), _("Update the statistics "
> >              "(histogram, range) for [%s]? "), name);
> > 
> > 
> > ??
> > 
> > 
> > For now I'm setting this to "term" mode in menu.tcl in the 6.2 release
> > branch while we work out a fix in HEAD.
> 
> I'm about half way through rewriting r.support (been in that state for
> awhile, now).  I'm splitting up the functionality into individual
> modules and removing interactivity.  A few of the modules are done, but
> I'm waiting for them all to be done before committing to CVS.

I suggest committing them as they are done. Regardless of the presence
or absence of r.support, the individual modules are useful in their
own right.

[Otherwise, r.region wouldn't exist.]

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>