[GRASS-dev] Re: writing msys capable grass63 startup script

[Paul Kelly]

On Sun, 20 May 2007, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> Hello,
>
> After make install under MinGW, the /bin/grass63 script contains:
>
> GISBASE=c:/grass/grass-6.3.cvs
>
> This does not work when you try to launch GRASS from the msys command line
> (not via the grass63.bat native win GRASS startup):
>
> $ ./grass63
> ./grass63: /c/grass/bin/c:/grass/grass-6.3.cvs/etc/Init.sh: No such file
> or dictory
>
> The setting should be:
>
> GISBASE=/c/grass/grass-6.3.cvs

Hello Moritz
I don't have time to look at this in detail now but in the GRASS 
Makefiless there are now two variables:
$(GISBASE) contains the path to GISBASE in the path syntax of the build 
system (i.e. Msys)
$(RUN_GISBASE) contains the path to GISBASE in the native path syntax of 
the host system.

Maybe you could look at varying some combination of these rather than 
conditionalising things on having Msys installed. E.g. Use $(GISBASE) to 
generate Init.sh while using $(RUN_GISBASE) to generate init.bat or 
something like that.

Paul

>
> But this needs to be conditionalised in the Makefile to only do this under
> MinGW. So:
>
> 1) Can we assume that this would work for any shell (other than msys)
> someone might use ?
>
> 2) How can we conditionalise in the Makefile ?
>
> Moritz
>
>