[GRASS-dev] g.extension still broken in GRASS 7 on Mac

[Michael Barton]

So responding to a query from a colleague I just tried g.extension in GRASS 7 that I compiled a few hours ago. Note that I'm running this from the terminal and yes GRASS_ADDON_PATH is set properly.

$GRASS_ADDON_PATH
bash: :/Library/GRASS/7.0/Modules/bin

I start running g.extensions with just the normal default settings

g.extension extension=r.stream.order
Fetching <r.stream.order> from GRASS-Addons SVN (be patient)...
Compiling...
mkdir: /Applications/GRASS/bin: Permission denied
make: *** [/Applications/GRASS/bin] Error 1
ERROR: Compilation failed, sorry. Please check above error messages.

First of all, this is wrong. Instead of putting this into the default, GRASS_ADDON_PATH, it is trying to create a new bin directory inside the GRASS app.

GRASS 7.0.svn (nc_spm_08):~ > sudo g.extension extension=r.stream.order
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid
You must be in GRASS GIS to run this program.

Now it won't let me use sudo to run g.extension.

So I try to force g.extension to use the proper directory specified by GRASS_ADDON_PATH

GRASS 7.0.svn (nc_spm_08):~ > g.extension extension=r.stream.order prefix=/Library/GRASS/7.0/Modules/bin
ERROR: Unable to create '/Library/GRASS/7.0/Modules/bin/bin': [Errno 13]
       Permission denied: '/Library/GRASS/7.0/Modules/bin/bin'

Again permission denied.

sudo g.extension extension=r.stream.order prefix=/Library/GRASS/7.0/Modules/bin
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid
You must be in GRASS GIS to run this program.

And again, I get a bogus message when I use sudo to override the permissions issue.

So there is no way this can work AFAICT.  Maybe it work in GRASS 6.

Michael
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Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University

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