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

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2011/10/14 Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>:

[...]

>> 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.

that's how it's working in G7.

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

It requires other variables like GRASS_ADDON_ETC, GRASS_ADDON_LIB, it
was a main reason why I changed it in G7. AFAIU Hamish would like to
define in G7 two variables, GRASS_ADDON_BASE (g.extension) and
GRASS_ADDON_PATH eg. for user scripts (?)

Martin

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