[GRASS-dev] Re: missing grass configuration files

[Michael Barton]

Thanks a million. This project is so great.

Michael
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C. Michael Barton
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Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University

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On Dec 8, 2009, at 6:15 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:
>
>>
>> Michael Barton wrote:
>>
>>> I found the file. It is now called "rc" but it is not ending up in
>>> ~/.grass7. Instead, it is just going into HOME.
>>>
>>> So this is a bug somewhere, but I'm not sure where. In Init.sh?
>>
>> lib/init/*.
>>
>> lib/init/Makefile replaces @GRASS_CONFIG_DIR@ with $ 
>> (GRASS_CONFIG_DIR)
>> in init.sh, grass.py and init.bat. However:
>>
>> 1. init.sh uses $GRASS_CONFIG_DIR, but doesn't define it; it needs a
>> line like:
>>
>> 	GRASS_CONFIG_DIR=@GRASS_CONFIG_DIR@
>>
>> GISRC is defined as:
>>
>> 	GISRCRC="$HOME/$GRASS_CONFIG_DIR/rc"
>>
>> so the missing definition for GRASS_CONFIG_DIR causes it to be set to
>> "$HOME//rc".
>>
> Or better
>
> if [ ! "$GRASS_CONFIG_DIR" ] ; then
> 	GRASS_CONFIG_DIR=@GRASS_CONFIG_DIR@
> 	export $GRASS_CONFIG_DIR
> fi
>
> so it can be overridden by the grass startup to define a build- 
> specific location.
>
> ...which I just added in r39949.
>
> Michael - I also updated the scripts that were using the old user  
> addon paths, and made the startup override GRASS_CONFIG_DIR so that  
> it's in the user's Preferences folder on OSX instead of the hidden  
> folder (also more secure).
>
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