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

[Michael Barton]

This is a binary I created and posted to my web site not too long ago. It worked fine before upgrading and works fine on people’s machines that have not upgraded. So this worries me. 

I’m hoping soon to have time to complete the complicated effort to recompile laslib so I can make new binaries before I think about upgrading to the new OS X. But I will be compiling them on the penultimate version of the OS (prior to El Capitan, released a few days ago).

Michael
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C. Michael Barton
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity 
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
Arizona State University

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> On Oct 6, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
> 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