[GRASS-dev] grass7 on mac OSX

[Michael Barton]

On May 24, 2010, at 6:35 AM, grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 00:49:51 +0200
> From: Massimo Di Stefano <massimodisasha at gmail.com>
> Subject: [GRASS-dev] grass7 on mac OSX
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> Hi All,
> 
> i upgrade grass7 from svn on mac osx 10.6.3 ,
> the build ends with an error in wxpython, rerunning make inside the wxpython director fix the problem.

I've reported this too. There is something wrong in the build/make files somewhere.

> 
> but tring to load grass from python i had thi error :
> 
> 
> In [1]: from grass.lib import grass
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "/Users/Shared/source/grass_trunk/dist.i386-apple-darwin10.3.0/etc/python/grass/lib/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
>    # $Id$
>  File "/Users/Shared/source/grass_trunk/dist.i386-apple-darwin10.3.0/etc/python/grass/lib/math.py", line 7, in <module>
> ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/grass/lib/_math.so, 2): Symbol not found: _G_math_backward_solving
>  Referenced from: /Applications/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/grass/lib/_math.so
>  Expected in: /Applications/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/libgrass_gmath.dylib
> in /Applications/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/etc/python/grass/lib/_math.so
> 
> 
> have you any clue on what i'm missing ?
> thanks!
> 
> Massimo.

I think this is a bogus error. The identical thing happened to a student here except that it claimed to be missing the subprocess module. The module is not missing and GRASS 6.5 works fine. GRASS 7 runs fine on my Mac, but this kind of error is cropping up somewhat randomly apparently.

Michael