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

[Michael Barton]

Why is g.extension even trying to put something into PERMANENT (in what location???) anyway? It is supposed to be installing into $GRASS_ADDON_BASE

Michael
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On Oct 22, 2013, at 1:28 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
> ...
>> On one machine (the one with GRASS_ADDON_PATH set), I get the errors
>> reported below. On the other machine, I get the following different set of
>> errors:
>> 
>> GRASS 7.0.svn (nc_spm_08):~ > g.extension extension=r.fuzzy
>> Fetching <r.fuzzy> from GRASS-Addons SVN (be patient)...
>> Compiling...
>> main.c: In function 'main':
>> main.c:152: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
>> main.c:156: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
>> main.c: In function 'main':
>> main.c:152: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
>> main.c:156: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
>> ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied
> 
> ...here is the (general, also on Linux) bug:
> 
> g.extension miserably fails when the GRASS session user is not the
> owner of PERMANENT as often the case in multi-user environments
> (shared grassdata directory).
> 
> Markus