[GRASS-dev] Grass7 GUI compilation failed

[Vaclav Petras]

On 5 January 2013 13:25, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just reinstalled python-wxversion package. This action added the file
>
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx.pth
>
> which is the part of the package but was missing on my computer. This
> may by some Ubuntu packaging problem (this would answer the question
> why other distributions are not affected).
>
> For me, it is solved. I don't know how to avoid this in the future.
>

Ubuntu has some packaging problem [1] related to the file

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx.pth

so I would close this as not-our-problem but I'm not sure about Mac
part of this discussion.

Vaclav

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wxwidgets2.8/+bug/948944


> On 5 January 2013 13:07, Rashad M <mohammedrashadkm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> yes. g.gui works which confirms that python path is set somewhere in grass
>> startup script
>> Also configure can check for PYTHONPATH and then updates or sets the
>> wxPython path. I think this can be achieved using a simple sed/cut command
>> to check wx-VER-gtk2-unicode in dist-packages. The same PYTHONPATH settings
>> can saved for running grass modules too
>>
>> or Alternatively instead of touching PYTHONPATH we could stick to
>> GRASS_PYTHONPATH and do the same. It better not to depend on PYTHONPATH to
>> take care of wxPython dist-packages dir
>> Because I think that may cause trouble in future. Lets have a method to
>> detect and set wxPython packages path.
>>
>> I can provide a patch if everyone agrees it a better idea.
>>
>> BTW, Anyone experiencing problem in other linux distros as well
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> g.gui?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>    Rashad