[GRASS-dev] nviz broken for Mac OS X 10.5.6 and TclTk 8.5 aqua

[Michael Barton]

Further tests.

This works find for aqua TclTk 8.5 without having to set GRASS_WISH in  
the .profile

So a Mac OS X user should be able to install TclTk from an  
ActiveStates binary, install a GRASS binary and go, without having to  
do any other tweaking.

Thanks!!

Michael

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On Dec 20, 2008, at 2:14 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> On Dec 20, 2008, at 1:49 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>
>> Yeah, that worries me just a bit.  I'm putting the symlink note in  
>> my own distribution readme, along with a note of the option of  
>> setting GRASS_WISH and GRASS_TCLSH.
>>
>> I need to update the bindist readme to include that note.
>>
>> I could bring back a default setting in the startup (removed when I  
>> dropped TclTk X11 bundling).  Since the build system doesn't  
>> provide a tcltk version variable, I could test for the presence of  
>> wish8.5...
>>
> OK, I added some detection of wish8.5 and 8.4 so the symlinks are  
> not needed.  It starts with 8.5, then falls back to 8.4.  (It gives  
> a warning if Aqua 8.4 is found, and doesn't set GRASS_WISH then.)   
> It should also work in the default OSX 10.4- shell setup where /usr/ 
> local/bin is not in the PATH.
>
> The user can still override GRASS_WISH and GRASS_TCLSH in their  
> bash_profile.
>
> It's in dev6 branch now.  Delete those "wish" and "tclsh" symlinks  
> and give this a try.  If OK I'll backport it to release 6.4.
>
>> On Dec 20, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
>>
>>> OK. That works. Thanks.
>>>
>>> There are still issues for distributing this. Installing  
>>> ActiveStates TclTk is easy enough. However, the symlinks need to  
>>> be made or GRASS_WISH needs to be set to wish8.5 in order for  
>>> GRASS to recognize this TclTk and NOT use the system 8.4.
>>>
>>> Michael
>
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