[GRASS-dev] env variables not set

[Moritz Lennert]

On 07/01/08 12:52, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Moritz Lennert wrote:
> 
>> I don't know if this is a local problem with my setup, but for some time 
>> now, MAPSET, LOCATION_NAME, and GISDBASE are not defined anymore in a 
>> running GRASS session. Just recompiled with fresh svn checkout, and the 
>> problem persists.
>>
>> This means that I can't do things like
>>
>> database=$GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf/
>>
>> I don't see any relevant changes in lib/init/init.sh which could explain 
>> this, but before I dig deeper to find out what's going on I would like 
>> to hear whether anyone else has this problem.
> 
> This was changed years ago (in 5.x, AFAICT; there doesn't appear to be
> any way to obtain the revision history for 5.x now that CVS is gone).

Strange, I could have sworn that I have successfully done things like:

v.db.connect -o mylakes table=mylakes2 
database=$GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf/

but I guess it must have been in my dreams...

Moritz