[GRASS-user] Re: Problem grass-6.4.0 error setting region: child process exited abnormally

[William Kyngesburye]

On Sep 29, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote:

> Hi William,
>                       I just downloaded the latest version of  
> grass-6.4.x from cvs and tried compiling it, first with X11 and the  
> tcltk options, and the second time without tcltk. The funny thing is  
> even though I disable tcltk from the configure command the second  
> time, the tcltk application still kept showing.
>
> Here is the first configure command
>
> ./configure --with-cxx --prefix=/Applications/GRASS --enable-macosx- 
> app --with-x --with-opengl=x11 --without-readline --x-includes=/usr/ 
> X11/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib --with-opengl-includes=/usr/ 
> X11/include --with-opengl-libs=/usr/X11/lib
>
> Here is the second configure command without tcltk
>
> ./configure --with-cxx --prefix=/Applications/GRASS --enable-macosx- 
> app --with-x --with-opengl=x11 --without-readline --x-includes=/usr/ 
> X11/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib --with-opengl-includes=/usr/ 
> X11/include --with-opengl-libs=/usr/X11/lib --without-tcltk
>
> What could be causing it?
>
The --with-tcltk option really has nothing to do with the TclTk GUI,  
it's just for NVIZ.  The GRASS TclTk GUI will use by default whichever  
"wish" it finds at runtime in your PATH.  The GUI that is used is  
controlled by GRASS_GUI.  See the GRASS documentation.


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