[GRASS-dev] Make grass 7 installable with brew on Mac?

[William Kyngesburye]

There are easy to install OS X installer packages for everything you need for GRASS, and other GIS software.  I wouldn't call package managers easier and painless on OS X, just another way to do things.

The /Library problems is the linking of the help files to the system help.  For the help to be available to all users, it must be /Library.  I've been thinking about it off and on and have a couple ideas, I just haven't had time to work on it.

I don't do homebrew or any other package manager, and I don't do ruby, so I can't help you with that error, you should ask the homebrew folks.

On Jul 2, 2013, at 4:27 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I just recently migrated to a Mac with OS X, and one think I am really
> missing is the package management. Therefore, I am now using
> homebrew [1] which works nicely - only that the recipe for installing
> grass from head does not work [2]. I would think that homebrew would be
> a nice addition to the ways of installing on OS X and it would make
> using GRASS much easied (all dependencies have a installation recipe, R
> has one as well, installation of rgdal is painless (from source)).
> 
> According to adamv [3] the problem is the following:
> ,----
> | Looking at the source to the new version, it still tries to install
> | files into /Library, but it now does it in a separate OS X specific
> | Makefile.
> `----
> Is there any chance that somebody with a mac at hand and interest could
> take a look at this? It sounds like an easy to solve problem (the
> homebrew recipes are ruby), but I don't know anything about ruby.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Rainer
> 
> 
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/
> 
> [2] error:  
> ,----
> | patching file Makefile
> | Hunk #1 FAILED at 304.
> | 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file Makefile.rej
> | Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/patch -f -p1 -i 000-homebrew.diff
> `----
> 
> [3]  https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/20665#issuecomment-19846487
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rainer M. Krug
> 
> email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com
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