[GRASS-dev] scripts don't launch GUI from the msys command line in winGRASS

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> > Note that if GRASS_GUI is tcltk, it won't work, due to G_popen() not
> > working at all on Windows (execl() works like on Unix, i.e. it doesn't
> > return if it succeeds; but unlike Unix, Windows doesn't have fork()).
> >
> > Using the new G_popen() from 7.0 is one option.
> 
> ... another backport project?

Resolved in r40834 (6.5) by replacing all uses of G_popen() (there are
only three, all in lib/gis) with popen().

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>