[GRASS-dev] GRASS on OS X El Capitan - slowly dying or is something happening?

William Kyngesburye woklist at kyngchaos.com
Wed Jan 20 15:46:43 PST 2016


There are a couple ideas floating around.

I'm surprised Homebrew has a problem.  Since it would leave everything in the configured location (/usr/local), there should not be library paths pointing somewhere else that would need DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to divert.

> On Jan 20, 2016, at 8:37 AM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Sorry for this blunt subject - but I am wondering if anybody is looking
> at supporting El Capitan without having to disable SIP (System Integrity
> Protection). SIP is likely to stay, and for many (including myself)
> disabling SIP is not really an option as it goes to deep into the OS.
> 
> 
> So my personal opinion: if GRASS want's to stay relevant on OS X, a
> solution needs to be found to compile and install it on a mac as easy
> as it was before (homebrew, which I relly like, and also the frameworks
> From  William Kyngesburye and michael Barton?)
> 
> I mean - I have found a way of compiling GRASS 7.1 (see my post from the
> 07 January in the topic "SUCCESS (running): Compiling grass 7 svn trunk
> on OS X El Capitan") which gives me a working GRASS GIS including GUI,
> but this is not really a solution.
> 
> I asked for help but did not get any response (subject "grass 7 svn
> trunk on OS X El Capitan - need help").
> 
> So I would like to know if somebody would be prepared to help or at
> least tell me if I am following the wrong track. I am not very
> experienced in compiling / linking / make files but I have a basic
> understanding.
> 
> I simply refuse to accept that GRASS will die for OSX users (>= El
> Capitan).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rainer
> 
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> 
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