[GRASS-dev] debugging nviz with TclTk 8.5 aqua

[William Kyngesburye]

On Jul 27, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:

>> 'osxaqua' is also used once outside of tcl scripts, in init.sh.  It's
>> used to decide whether to pipe the gis.m startup command to "sh &" or
>> not.  I don't know if this really needs to be there, or if a  
>> different
>> test could be used.
>
> That code is complete gibberish, and potentially quite dangerous (if
> wish writes anything to stdout, the shell will attempt to execute it),
> so I have removed it.
>
> ISTR that it's a hack to deal with the case where Init.sh doesn't have
> a stdout (i.e. if it's run directly from the desktop rather than from
> a terminal).
>
The OSX app startup ('desktop' startup) should have a shell at this  
time.  I open a new Terminal window before running the GRASS startup  
script.

I don't know how Lorenzo handles it, but that's probably one of those  
things that should be handled by the packager (-> make sure there is a  
stdout available before starting GRASS).


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