[GRASSLIST:1256] Re: Two more grass5b10 gnats

[Justin Hickey]

Hi Chris
bob at math.umn.edu wrote:
> 
> For your enjoyment ...
> 
> Running grass5 died (linux prompt) and was only fixed by editing
> /usr/local/grass5/tcltkgrass/script/gis_set.tcl to comment out lines:
> 
> 706 #if { [string compare -nocase $ver "8.0"] < 0} \
> 707 #{
> 708 #    puts stderr "Sorry your version of Tcl/Tk is $ver and is too
> old for GRASS."
> 709 #    puts stderr "GRASS requires a TCL/TK version of 8.0 or more."
> 710 #    puts stderr "Reverting back to text mode interface."
> 711 #    exit 1
> 712 #}

Actually, a better fix is to simply delete the -nocase option (and
remove the comments :).
 
> When the GUI pops up, starting the monitor fails because my $PATH is 
> too long for it.  Running d.mon from the grass5 prompt works fine. 
> Perhaps the Tcl/Tk should not worry so much about the size of
> environmental variables.  If that is possible ...

Hmmm. I'm not sure what the problem is here, I do not know of any limit
to the size of environment variables. What is the actual error message
you get?

Thanks for notifying us of these problems.

-- 
Sincerely,

Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey)  e-mail: jhickey at hpcc.nectec.or.th
High Performance Computing Center
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
Bangkok, Thailand
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