[GRASS-dev] g.extension not working on debian - grass 6.4.3svn

[Paulo van Breugel]

Hi Hamish,

No, I just run it from within GRASS.  But let's see if it works with the
latest version (I'LLC try tomorrow).

Thanks!

Paulo
On Jan 28, 2013 10:14 PM, "Hamish" <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Margherita wrote:
> > Hamish,
> > KUDOS! It works like a charm, tested with addons in C, in
> > python and in bash.
> > Thanks A LOT!
>
> glad to hear it. It's just the first step though, making sure it
> also still works from the various packages (esp. Mac) is needed.
>
> Paulo, re.:
> > ERROR: G_getenv(): Variable LOCATION_NAME not set
>
> I'd again ask Markus's question- are you trying to run the script
> from outside of GRASS? The help pages get their usage info auto-
> matically from a modified version of 'g.module --help', so if
> you try to run it from outside of GRASS the module fails to run
> and that's the error you are seeing. During the main build we
> don't have a grass session to use for that so we employ a trick
> that creates a fake grass session (called "demolocation", perhaps
> a poor choice of words) and runs it there. The bootstrapping from
> that to the installed stripped down build system for g.extension
> and self compiled addon modules or self-supplied scripts  is in large part
> the cause of all the trouble we've had with this, it's a multicontext
> situation. But solvable, and hopefully that part of it is all ok now.
>
>
> regards,
> Hamish
>
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