[GRASS-dev] nviz compile errors on Mac OS X

[Michael Barton]

On Sep 14, 2008, at 1:25 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> On Sep 14, 2008, at 3:02 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>
>> On further inspection of the crashlog, I think it's the  
>> _grass6_wxnviz.so that it's choking on (makes sense).  I see that  
>> libgrass_nviz is loaded in the binary images section, but not  
>> _grass6_wxnviz.so (_grass6_wxnviz.so and nviz2 are the only things  
>> that link libgrass_nviz).  So it was in the middle of loading it  
>> and got libgrass_nviz loaded, then crash.  From there I'm at a loss.
>>
>
> Here's an odd thought - permissions.  When python source is loaded,  
> python automatically attempts to compile bytecode as .pyc, alongside  
> the source.  I don't know what python does if it can't write these  
> files due to lack of permissions.
>
> When you sudo make install, you then don't have write permissions in  
> the GRASS.app folders.
>
> I've been running my GRASS tests in an uninstalled copy, with this  
> procedure:
>
> make
> make bindist
>
> the OSX bindist creates an installer package, and *also* leaves  
> behind the assembled application in macosx/dist.  Try this.

Tried it. Got a warning...


2008-09-14 13:34:55.327 packagemaker[52382:60b] relocate: (null) 0
     Warning: Could not preserve resource forks because /Tools/ 
SplitForks could not be found.
rm -f "GRASS-6.4.pkg/Contents/Resources/TokenDefinitions.plist"


Otherwise it seems to install.

But nviz doesn't work

>
>
> Otherwise, I'm grasping at straws now.
>
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