GRASS installation on Silicon Graphics

[Bill Brown]

Bob,

We've been using GRASS on Silicon Graphics for several years, but I've
never tried installing the binary distribution that's on moon.  The
environment variables you mentioned should be set at startup automatically
(reading them from your .grassrc file) by the program g.gisenv, called
from GIS.sh.  It looks to me like g.gisenv is failing, but I'd have to
see the error messages you're getting.  You might try remaking the links
to front.end by running CMD/MAKELINKS.

I'm compiling GRASS4.1 for IRIX5.2 as we speak, so there will probably be
a new binary distribution of this available within a week or so (The
current binary was compiled under IRIX4.0.5, I think).  If you're running
pre-5.0 IRIX, you won't be able to use the new binary when it's released,
though because SGI changed their executable format.  The current binary
release should work on IRIX4.x or IRIX5.x.

I'm not aware of any SGI-specific problems with hard links or FIFOS in
GRASS.

-Bill B