[GRASS-dev] GRASS cvs for Mac compilation fails for OS X 10.4

Michael Barton michael.barton at asu.edu
Sat Nov 17 13:10:48 EST 2007


Great. Thanks.

I'm visting Stanford to give a talk. I just installed GRASS on 2 iMacs and 2
laptops in the Archaeology Center spatial analysis lab.

Trying to get it on a colleague's PC laptop. This is trickier.

Michael


On 11/17/07 11:07 AM, "William Kyngesburye" <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:

> Doh!  I got a little carried away with a find-n-replace and messed up
> a sed replacement for the grass.sh script.  Fixed in cvs.  After
> recompile and install, you can delete that symlink for 'wish'.
> 
> On Nov 17, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> OK. Figured it out. But it needs to be fixed somewhere in the make
>> systems I
>> think.
>> 
>> In both my previous compile (of a few weeks ago) and the one I tried
>> last
>> night and today, a copy of wish8.4 is put into the $GISBASE/bin
>> folder.
>> 
>> In my older version (which worked fine), apparently this is launched
>> when
>> the GUI system is launched.
>> 
>> In the new version, it tries to launch a symlink named "wish"
>> instead of the
>> embedded wish8.4. There is no such symlink and it tries to run another
>> symlink on my system that is NOT linked to the correct version of
>> TclTk
>> (I'll fix that locally, but it should not affect GRASS).
>> 
>> When I created a symlink named "wish" for the embedded wish8.4 all
>> works
>> well.
>> 
>> So what has changed? Something is calling wish instead of wish8.4,
>> but I
>> don't know what.
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
> 
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Arizona State University

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