[GRASS-user] v.digit under wxGUI

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Vincent Bain <bain at toraval.fr> wrote:
> OK,
>
> so in order to fully enjoy the wxpython GUI on an 64 bit architecture
> (especially the wxdigit module) one should first read carefully the
> README file located in the your_grass_source_location/gui/wxpython
> directory.
>
> The section named "7 - VECTOR DIGITIZER" tells you to create a symbolic
> link to a wx library :
>
>        sudo ln -s `locate _gdi_.so` /usr/local/lib/libgdi.so
>
> The command locate _gdi_.so may points towards the 32 bit library and
> ignore (?) the 64 bit libs path (/usr/lib64/...), so it fails.

Ouch, you are right! I have a pure 64bit box here...

> In my configuration I had to type :
>
>        sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages\
>        /wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_gdi_.so /usr/local/lib/libgdi.so
>
> And it worked !

It needs to be conditionalized upon
$HOSTTYPE

Here:
echo  $HOSTTYPE
x86_64

I'll update the README accordingly.

Markus