[Qgis-user] GRASS plugin (GISBASE) - MAC OS

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ant=F3nio_M?=. Rodrigues]

It worked.

Chose, as you mentioned /Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS, and all went fine.

Thanks (again)

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:16:59 -0600, William Kyngesburye wrote
> On Jan 15, 2010, at 2:52 PM, António M. Rodrigues wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm having problems trying to run the GRASS plugin from within QGIS1.4.
> > 
> > I get the message:
> > 
> > "QGIS couldn't find your GRASS installation.
> > Would you like to specify path (GISBASE) to your GRASS installation?"
> > 
> > After choosing yes, I attempted to:
> > 	-Navigate to /Applications/GRASS-6.4.app, and select this path as "GRASS installation path 
> > (GISBASE)
> > 	-Navigate to /Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents, and select this path as "GRASS 
installation 
> > path (GISBASE)
> > 	-Navigate to /Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/Resources, and select this path as 
"GRASS 
> > installation path (GISBASE)
> > 
> The correct path is now /Applications/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS 
> (it used to be Resources).
> 
> But, with a fresh Qgis prefs, it should just work, so there may be 
> another framework version incompatibility somewhere.  Very possibly 
> GRASS 6.4 has a problem with a *newer* framework version - it's been 
> out for a while and there have been a couple framework updates that 
> might affect GRASS, and I haven't noticed because I run GRASS 6.5 
> outside of Qgis for my work.
> 
> ... like PROJ 4.7 ;)  GRASS 6.4 links to PROJ 4.6, while starting 
> with PROJ 4.7 I name the version just "4", to avoid problems just 
> like this.  The Apple installer is a little too smart, and sees that 
> you are updating PROJ, so PROJ 4.7 deleted 4.6.
> 
> I've been meaning to rebuild GRASS 6.4 for this and other framework 
> updates, but also an RC6 seems so close that I don't want to waste 
> effort...
> 
> Quick fix, in a Terminal:
> 
> sudo ln 4 /Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/Versions/4.6
> 
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> 
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> 
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