[GRASS-dev] "Max OS 10.8: g.gui and DISPLAY"

[Vaclav Petras]

Thanks Glynn for checking this.

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>wrote:

>
> Vaclav Petras wrote:
>
> > Anna and I are trying to compile GRASS 7 on Mac OS 10.8. Although there
> > were some problems we were able to compile it.
> >
> > But than we were not able to start GRASS because initialization ended
> with
> > the error message about missing X Window system. This comes from
> > init/grass.py where it checks for DISPLAY variable. The variable is not
> > set. Do we need it to test it for GRASS7 and Mac OS? Setting to any value
> > (e.g., export DISPLAY=0) solved the problem.
>
> That's a bug in grass.py:
>
>     if os.getenv('DISPLAY') or windows:
>
> That should probably be:
>
>     if os.getenv('DISPLAY') or windows or macosx:
>
> Done in r57536.

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/57536



> > The second error appears when we try to launch GUI from command line
> using
> > g.gui (i.e., the error does not happen during GRASS launch):
> >
> >  wxgui.py: posix_spawn: /Users/...wxpython/wxgui.py2.7: No such file or
> > directory
> >
> > Changing the second parameter of G_spawn_ex to a 'python' instead of a
> > 'python source' solved the problem:
>
> That looks fine. When executing a script from the shell, argv[0] is
> the path to the interpreter rather than that of the script.


Done in r57537.

https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/57537

>
> --
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/attachments/20130828/6e00553f/attachment.html>