[GRASS-dev] OSX Snow Leopard problem with python

Helena Mitasova hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu
Sun Sep 6 20:53:03 EDT 2009


William,

I have one student in class who has your binaries running on Snow  
Leopard, including wxpython GUI (I believe)
  I can check with him in case you still have problems,

Helena

On Sep 6, 2009, at 7:28 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> I had some problems getting wxpython GUI to run after upgrading to  
> OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard.  I thought I might need to rebuild (I was  
> using the Leopard binaries), but that doesn't help.
>
> When I got GRASS to execute to correct Python (another issue I know  
> how to workaround), starting the GUI does nothing.  With DEBUG  
> level 5, I get:
>
> GRASS 6.5.svn (spearfish60):~ > g.gui wxpython
> D1/5: Attempting to start 'wxpython' GUI ...
> D3/5: forking 'python' ...
> re-executing using pythonw
> GRASS 6.5.svn (spearfish60):~ >
>
> And the GUI never appears.  I kinda wonder if it has something to  
> do with the old fork/exec problem that started with Leopard (or was  
> is Tiger), and maybe now instead of a warning, it simply fails  
> (nothing else in the console log).
>
> ?
>
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