[GRASS-dev] GRASS_ADDON_PATH question

[Michael Barton]

Thanks William. I'll give this a try. What I'm trying to do is see if I can
set this for the scripts already in $GISBASE/etc/gm/script.

Michael


On 6/9/07 8:33 AM, "William Kyngesburye" <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:

> GRASS_ADDON_PATH is used at startup, in init.sh.  All that happens is
> that it is added to the shell PATH.  So setting it after GRASS starts
> isn't going to work.  And there is a quirk with .grass.bashrc that it
> is not loaded until after the mapset selection happens, which is also
> after GRASS_ADDON_PATH is processed.
> 
> Try setting it in .bash_profile.
> 
> Note: the OSX app has a couple 'standard' addon locations:
> 
> /Library/GRASS/[version]/modules/bin
> $HOME/Library/GRASS/[version]/modules/bin
> 
> so if you put scripts there you don't have to fiddle with
> GRASS_ADDON_PATH.  As you might guess, /Library is available to all
> users and ~/Library is available only to one user.
> 
> On Jun 9, 2007, at 1:30 AM, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>>> From reading the docs, it appears that if you set the
>>> GRASS_ADDON_PATH
>> variable, you should have access to any modules or scripts stored
>> therein by
>> simply typing the name of the module or script. However, it doesn¹t
>> seem to
>> work.
>> 
>> I¹ve tried setting this from the GRASS command line, .grass.bashrc
>> file for
>> testing, and my .grassrc6 file
>> 
>> Nothing seems to work. If I type the name of a script residing in the
>> directory I¹ve set in GRASS_ADDON_PATH, I simply get a file not
>> found error.
>> However, if I do ls $GRASS_ADDON_PATH, I get a valid listing of the
>> directory specified.
>> 
>> What am I missing here?
> 
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> 
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> 

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