[GRASS-dev] 6.4 Nviz Windows problems

[Paul Kelly]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Glynn Clements wrote:

>>>> Trying to run nviz brings up a further error - see attached -
>>>> unfortunately no time to look into it further now.
>>>
>>> I can't reproduce this. Does the file appear to be valid?
>>
>> No - it's not there actually. Didn't take much further looking into... the
>> culprit seems to be r32173:
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/32173
>> (-L option added to find command-line). The Msys find doesn't seem to have
>> the -L option - but perhaps it is just a version issue? find --version
>> reports:
>> GNU find version 4.1
>
> FWIW, -L is POSIX:
>
> 	http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/find.html
>
> It may be that MSys dropped the option due to Windows not having
> symlinks, although silently ignoring it would have been better.
>
> 7.0 uses $(wildcard ...) instead of "find". That could be used, or
> alternatively:
>
> ifneq ($(strip $(MINGW)),)
> 	FIND = find
> else
> 	FIND = find -L
> endif

I've committed the second solution and this is fixed now.

No other pressing problems for 6.4.0 on Windows as far as I can see.

Paul