[GRASS-dev] [bug #3069] (grass) r.mapcalc - warning/errorr amibiguity

Moritz Lennert mlennert at club.worldonline.be
Tue Mar 6 05:59:45 EST 2007


On 06/03/07 11:45, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Moritz Lennert wrote:
> 
>>>> r.mapcalc still prints this double information in case 2 same called
>>>> rasters exit within the accesible mapsets, eg.:
>>>>
>>>> WARNING: 'cell/map' was found in more mapsets (also found in nic).
>> As I've mentioned before somewhere, I find this message a bit confusing, 
>> especially the "also found in" which normally gives me the mapset I am 
>> in and want to use the map of (at least it does so when in mapset user1 
>> of spearfish working on a local copy of a map which is also in PERMANENT).
>>
>> Couldn't this be changed so that it mentions the _other_ mapsets the map 
>> is in, and maybe mention which map is used by default (I know that in 
>> this case it stops with an error, but many other modules just emit this 
>> as a warning, leaving the user uninformed of which map was used) ?
> 
> I've changed it so that it identifies all of the mapsets involved,
> e.g.:
> 
> 	$ r.resample in=fields out=fields
> 	Creating support files for fields...
> 	creating new cats file...
> 	$ r.mapcalc foo = fields
> 	WARNING: 'cell/fields' was found in more mapsets (also found in PERMANENT).
> 	WARNING: using 'fields at glynn'.
> 

Great, thanks !

Moritz




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