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

[Michael Barton]

On Sep 14, 2008, at 2:21 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> On Sep 14, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
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>> I was looking in the target directory. Yes, it is there. I have a  
>> different result now (and in the target directory when I tried  
>> something). Nviz no longer crashes Python. It simply doesn't do  
>> anything. This is an improvement I guess.
>>
> So, python doesn't handle lack of permissions for the .pyc  
> generation very well...  Though since the GUI runs, I wonder if  
> that's just limited to .pyc for binary extensions?

Not quite. Normally, I let make install simply overwrite my existing  
grass app. That way, if I have any new files I'm working on, it just  
ignores them. I also don't have to make a new image for the dock. Once  
in awhile, there is a problem with this, however. I decided to rename  
my existing app and let make install create a totally new one (bindist  
did the same thing of course). In this new app, nviz no longer crashes  
Python, but simply does nothing.

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>
> When you say nviz doesn't do anything, do you get the nviz settings  
> and exit tools?  And behind the display window, maybe that "please  
> wait" windoid?

None of that. I select the nviz setting in the display and absolutely  
nothing happens. I haven't checked yet, but I'm wondering about the  
problem I'm having with vdigit--i.e., not finding the *.so file.  
Perhaps there is a hard-coded path in vdigit.py and nviz.py that has  
them looking for files in the wrong place.

Maybe Martin can tell us. I'll look at the files too.

Michael

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