[GRASS-dev] GRASS and Mac OS X El Capitan

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
> A couple of my students upgraded to the new Mac OS, El Capitan, and can no
> longer run GRASS.
>
> We tried a work around that disabled one of the new security settings. This
> got the launch process further, but it still bombed. Has anyone had any luck
> with this yet?
>
> Here is the error:
>
> Launching <wxpython> GUI in the background, please wait...
>
> GRASS 7.0.1 (MedLambertA):~ > Traceback (most recent call last):
...
>   File
> "/Applications/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/gui/wxpython/vdigit/toolbars.py",
> line 30, in <module>
>     from iclass.digit       import IClassVDigit
>
>   File
> "/Applications/GRASS-7.0.app/Contents/MacOS/gui/wxpython/iclass/digit.py",
> line 23, in <module>
>     from vdigit.wxdisplay import DisplayDriver, TYPE_AREA
>
> ImportError: cannot import name TYPE_AREA

There is a (closed) ticket:
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2538

and an email
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2013-September/065580.html

... both indicating the same solution:
* "Ok. Don't know what happened to my source tree, but with a fresh
checkout I can start the GUI again. False alarm. Sorry for the noise.
"
* "fixed by rebuilding svn tree from scratch and compiling from it"

Perhaps this will also help today?

Markus