[GRASS-user] Install Addon GRASS 7.0 on Mac

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Johannes Radinger <JRadinger at gmx.at> wrote:
> hej,
>
> Am 03.03.2011 um 07:01 schrieb Hamish:
>
>> William wrote:
>>>
>>> g.extension also changes how GRASS_ADDON_PATH is
>>> interpreted, from GRASS 6 - it used to be a direct path to
>>> the executable folder, ie bin/, now it's a path to the
>>> parent of that.  The default user addon paths set by
>>> the Mac startup are (GRASS version is major.minor version):
>>
>> It still should be a single path which points to a dir which should be
>> added to GRASS's search $PATH.
>>
>> yes, g.extension is abusing it a bit using it like --prefix, but some
>> months ago g.extension was reworked with a hack so a symlink to the
>> executable made it into the real $GRASS_ADDON_PATH and not some support
>> dir beneath it.
>>
>> it is far from ideal, but it should make it work.. at least when the
>> install is built from a local compile. not sure how well tested it is
>> outside of that (where Platform.make and friends need to point to the
>> installed dir not the build dir, which doesn't exist on the end-users'
>> computer)
>>
>>
>> Hamish
>>
>>
>
> It seems that my g.extension points to the build dir
> rather then to the installation.


Maybe you are hit by
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/620
?

see also
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/854


Markus