[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-SVN] r40713 - grass/branches/develbranch_6/lib/gis

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> While backporting below, I found this unported change 6.5 -> 6.4:
>>
>> @@ -1989,7 +1998,7 @@
>>
>>      sprintf(script, "%s/etc/wxpython/gui_modules/menuform.py",
>>           getenv("GISBASE"));
>> -    G_spawn(getenv("GRASS_PYTHON"), "menuform.py", script, pgm_name, NULL);
>> +    G_spawn(getenv("GRASS_PYTHON"), getenv("GRASS_PYTHON"), script,
>> pgm_name, NULL);
>>  }
>>
>> Also backport?
>
> May as well.
>
> This is a workaround for a Gentoo bug. On Gentoo, "python" is a
> launcher which invokes the "active" version of Python. Unfortunately,
> it cares about argv[0].
>
> The change causes the invocation to mirror normal execution of a
> script from the shell (i.e. argv[0] is set to the name of the
> interpreter).
>
> Even without the change, the Gentoo bug can be worked around by
> setting GRASS_PYTHON to the specific Python interpreter (e.g.
> "python2.6") rather than the launcher ("python").

OK, done in r40722 to attract more Gentoo users.

Markus