[winGRASS] RE: [GRASS-user] windows native version does not start

[Jonathan Aguero]

I guess, GRASS developers tried to make the init script flexible enough to
be used in most platforms and shells. Anyway, if you remove the CYGWIN
variable the script should run properly. 

Jonathan Aguero Valverde
Research Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate
Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania Transportation Institute
201 Transportation Research Building
University Park, PA 16802
www.personal.psu.edu/jua130

-----Original Message-----
From: grassuser-bounces at grass.itc.it [mailto:grassuser-bounces at grass.itc.it]
On Behalf Of Wolfgang
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:22 AM
To: grassuser at grass.itc.it
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] windows native version does not start

But why does the init script make such decisions when grass is not 
working with bash?

Wolfgang

Jonathan Aguero schrieb:
> Paul, 
> This has been discussed recently in the wingrass list. The problem is
> related to the selection of the shell for running wingrass in the init
file.
> If you had cygwin before, some environmental variables my still exist in
> your PC that make the init script to select the bash shell instead of the
> bourne shell (sh) that is used by MinGW/Msys.
> See the wingrass list for more details.
> 
> Jonathan Aguero Valverde
> Research Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate
> Pennsylvania State University
> The Pennsylvania Transportation Institute
> 201 Transportation Research Building
> University Park, PA 16802
> www.personal.psu.edu/jua130
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grassuser-bounces at grass.itc.it
[mailto:grassuser-bounces at grass.itc.it]
> On Behalf Of Markus Neteler
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 6:33 AM
> To: grassuser at grass.itc.it
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] windows native version does not start
> 
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:14:31AM +0000, Paul Kelly wrote:
>> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, wolfgang wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've installed the windows native version but during startup (after 
>>> choosing the grass db I get an error and grass is closing immediately:
>> [Screenshot shows "can't read "parts(n)"..."-type Tcl error]
>>
>> This may be related to supporting libraries (e.g. GDAL) not being 
>> installed properly or in the PATH. I think there was a patch to gis.m 
>> recently to catch the error at an earlier stage and so make the error 
>> message less obscure.
> 
> Please run
> 
> g.region -p
> 
> to see the error. New gis.m versions now show it directly,
> as Paul said.
> 
> Markus
> 
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