[GRASS-user] fix for broken wxGUI on Linux

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2009/9/30 Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>:
>> I am using
>> rpm -qf /usr/bin/swig
>> swig-1.3.38-2mdv2009.1
>>
>> I have that version since May 2009 and wxGUI worked. Only
>> later (some weeks ago) it got broken.
>>
>>> broken vdigit or nviz should not affect the whole wxGUI.
>
> probably wxPython has been updated(?), currently you need to use the
> same version of swig which has been used for compiling wxPython.

Ah, good hint!
Let's check.

for i in `rpm -qa | grep wx` ; do echo -n "$i: "; rpm -qil $i | grep
'Install Date' ; done | cut -d' ' -f1-9
wxgtk2.8-2.8.9-3.2mdv2009.1: Install Date: Mon 24 Aug 2009 09:27:16 AM
lib64wxPythonGTK2.8-devel-2.8.9.2-2mdv2009.1: Install Date: Fri 29 May
2009 08:47:13 PM
lib64wxPythonGTK2.8-2.8.9.2-2mdv2009.1: Install Date: Fri 29 May 2009
08:47:01 PM
lib64wxgtk2.8-2.8.9-3.2mdv2009.1: Install Date: Mon 24 Aug 2009 09:27:17 AM
wxPythonGTK-2.8.9.2-2mdv2009.1: Install Date: Fri 29 May 2009 08:47:06 PM
lib64wxgtk2.8-devel-2.8.9-3.2mdv2009.1: Install Date: Mon 24 Aug 2009
09:27:25 AM
lib64wxgtku2.8-2.8.9-3.2mdv2009.1: Install Date: Thu 03 Sep 2009 11:41:01 AM
wxPythonGTK-tools-2.8.9.2-2mdv2009.1: Install Date: Fri 29 May 2009 08:47:16 PM
wxPythonGTK-wxversion-2.8.9.2-2mdv2009.1: Install Date: Fri 29 May
2009 08:47:03 PM
lib64wxgtkgl2.8-2.8.9-3.2mdv2009.1: Install Date: Mon 24 Aug 2009 09:27:20 AM

[neteler at localhost ~]$ for i in `rpm -qa | grep swig` ; do echo -n
"$i: "; rpm -qil $i | grep 'Install Date' ; done | cut -d' ' -f1-9
swig-1.3.38-2mdv2009.1: Install Date: Fri 01 May 2009 09:05:27 PM

Perhaps it's broken here since  24 Aug ... (cannot remember).
Last question before I investigate: are all wx libraries above used? Sorry
for my ignorance... I just want to hunt down the offending package and
not ruffle the feathers for unrelated libraries.

Markus