[GRASS-user] AddOn or Script when compiling GRASS from source

[Glynn Clements]

Hamish wrote:

> > > IOW, GRASS_ADDON_PATH is supposed to be the
> > > root of the add-on hierarchy, analogous to
> > > GISBASE for the main installation.
> 
> no it is not supposed to be like that!
> 
> the fact that it has been used like that in trunk
> is a mistake I hope to remedy.
> 
> mainly by having trunk look for GRASS_ADDON_BASE
> instead of GRASS_ADDON_PATH if it is actually
> wanting --prefix= instead of $PATH.
> 
> 
> [in grass6] GRASS_ADDON_PATH is what gets prepended
> to the OS's $PATH to look for executables.

That's wrong.

> currently
> g.extension creates symlinks to ameliorate the
> misuse. FYI I plan to modify g.extension in grass6
> to install executables to the main ADDON dir,
> instead of to scripts/ and bin/ + symlinks back to
> the main dir. The current way is needlessly
> complicated.

There should only need to be a single environment variable, from which
all components of add-ons (executables, libraries, data files,
documentation) should be able to be found.

If GRASS_ADDON_PATH is just for executables, how are libraries, manual
pages, etc, supposed to be found?

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>