[GRASS-user] locating GRASS installation directories on different operating systems

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de> wrote:
> Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> writes:
...
> I always forget about the --config options
>
> But how robust is this?

Robust to my knowledge. There is not much magic behind :-)

> I think it is also only supported from 7 onwards

Right.

> (at least my 6.4.4 installation does not know the argument --config)?

Unless we add it also there (perhaps some effort since that is still a
bash start script).

For now, you could conditionalize on G7, the start script name should
carry the version number anyway.

Markus