[GRASSLIST:1685] Re: GRASS Cygwin Binary Installation problems.

[Malcolm Blue]

Howard,

As Glynn said, the programs in /usr/local/grass5/etc/bin/cmd/ are the 
actual programs.  Since these files are all missing, there is something 
wrong with the installation or the distribution that you received.  I 
recommend waiting for the new version.  This should be very soon.

I don't have the binary distribution, so I can't look to see what is in 
it.  If you don't mind waiting, I think it will go easier for you, since 
these are the kinds of problems Andreas is working to overcome.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Malcolm

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Glynn Clements wrote:

> Howard Tan wrote:
> 
>> I looked in '/usr/local/grass5/etc/bin/cmd/'. The directory was completely
>> empty.
> 
> 
> The installation is completely screwed, then. All of the actual
> programs live in there (371 files, for me). The stuff in grass5/bin
> (on a Unix sytem these are just hard links to grass5/etc/front.end),
> just invokes the corresponding program in grass5/etc/bin/cmd or
> grass5/etc/bin/inter as appropriate.
> 
>> I found I had a copy of g.gisenv in 'd:\cygwin\usr\local\grass5\bin'.
>> I copied the file to '/usr/local/grass5/etc/bin/cmd/'. I tried to start
>> grass, and I got past the first screen, and where it normally coughs out, it
>> clear the screen and start to do something on the harddrive. I waited for
>> about 5 minutes and it didn't finish. I got impatient and closed the window.
>> 
>> I then proceeded to run through the steps you illustrated... After it runs
>> for about 30 minutes I got the following error:
>> 
>> 'd:\cygwin\usr\local\grass5\etc\bin\cmd\g.gisenv: *** couldn't commit memory
>> for cygwin heap, Win32 error 487'
> 
> 
> Yep. grass5/bin/g.gisenv just invokes grass5/etc/bin/cmd/g.gisenv,
> which should be the actual program, but in your case it's just a copy
> of grass5/bin/g.gisenv, resulting in infinite regression.
>