[GRASS-user] fix for broken wxGUI on Linux

[Michael Barton]

Markus,

Can you send me an output of the error so that I can try to see where  
it is coming from?

We've been unable to get GRASS 6.5 or 7 compiled on our Ubuntu 9.2  
machines so I can't test it there.

Thanks
Michael
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On Dec 11, 2009, at 10:00 AM, grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:33:13 +0100
> From: Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] fix for broken wxGUI on Linux
> To: Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>
> Cc: grass-user <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>
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> (back to an old problem)
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Martin Landa  
> <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/9/30 Markus Metz <markus.metz.giswork at googlemail.com>:
>>> There were a couple of complains lately that wxGUI on Linux is  
>>> broken. I
>>> just want to mention that wxGUI works for me again (no warnings,  
>>> no errors)
>>> after I downgraded swig from 1.3.39 to 1.3.35 on Fedora 10.
>>> Maybe downgrading swig helps on other Linux distros too.
>>
>> right, currently key point is swig version you are using during
>> compilation of vdigit or nviz.
>
> (meanwhile updated to Mandriva 2010.0, same problem)
>
> I use the distro versions...
>
>> This should be change in the future,
>> broken vdigit or nviz should not affect the whole wxGUI.
>
> Do you think that this could be implemented? In January I would
> like to showcase the new GUI in a couple of occasions but I
> cannot start it for some months now.
> Don't remember how to debug that, though.
>
> Markus
>