[GRASS-dev] GRASS working under Mac El Capitan with SIP/rootless?

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I now have versions of GRASS 7.0.5, 7.2, and 7.3 that were compiled on a Mac running El Capitan that seem to work fine on the Mac, including the current El Capitan OS with SIP/rootless mode disabled.

They also seem to work fine on my laptop with El Capitan installed and SIP/rootless mode enabled. But it will be much better if others besides me test them.

You can download them at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4t0h1x8xwz9qnlh/AACFl4WQNtUPSAPtFE4Eg1Eua?dl=0

Oddly, the only things I’ve run into that don’t work so far are 3D mode, vector digitizer, and raster digitizer. The only errors are the following in the terminal at startup:

Launching GUI in the background, please wait…
GRASS 7.3.svn (nc_spm_08_grass7):~ > Unable to import pyGRASS: grass_gis.7.3.svn not found.
Some functionality will be not accessible

And the following in the console after startup:

3D view mode not available
Reason: grass_gis.7.3.svn not found.

Vector digitizer not available
Reason: cannot import name GV_LINES
Note that the wxGUI’s vector digitizer is currently disabled
(hopefully this will be fixed soon). Please keep an eye out
for updated versions of GRASS. In the meantime you can use
“v.digit” from the Develop Vector menu.

The 3D mode error seems similar to the pyGRASS not importing error
I’m not sure where GV_LINES comes from.

Any ideas on this? If these turn out to be the only problems, we are close to finally getting this issue resolved.

Michael

C. Michael Barton
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Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
Arizona State University

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton@asu.edu>
wrote:

Oddly, the only things I've run into that don't work so far are 3D mode,
vector digitizer, and raster digitizer. The only errors are the following
in the terminal at startup:

Launching <wxpython> GUI in the background, please wait...
GRASS 7.3.svn (nc_spm_08_grass7):~ > Unable to import pyGRASS:
grass_gis.7.3.svn not found.
Some functionality will be not accessible

And the following in the console after startup:

3D view mode not available

Reason: grass_gis.7.3.svn not found.

Vector digitizer not available

Reason: cannot import name GV_LINES

Note that the wxGUI's vector digitizer is currently disabled
(hopefully this will be fixed soon). Please keep an eye out
for updated versions of GRASS. In the meantime you can use
"v.digit" from the Develop Vector menu.

The 3D mode error seems similar to the pyGRASS not importing error
I'm not sure where GV_LINES comes from.

Any ideas on this? If these turn out to be the only problems, we are close
to finally getting this issue resolved.

This is likely caused by the fact that the dynamic libraries are not loaded
because the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored. If you disable SIP you will get
past that.

Anyway I don't understand why the modules are working (e.g. GRASS and GUI
starts) and ctypes are not (v digitizer, 3D, PyGRASS depend on ctypes
loading the GRASS libs). It seems that that's the part needed to resolve
this issue. (It is actually the same for Homebrew as well.)

PyGRASS should not be touched during startup and in GUI, so I don't know
where "Unable to import pyGRASS" is coming from but that's a secondary
issue not spotted elsewhere (it is also an old version).

Vaclav

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I don’t remember where this was from originally. Many months back. I think it may have been when I was trying to use wxPython3. SIP was already off.

Michael

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton@asu.edu> wrote:

Oddly, the only things I’ve run into that don’t work so far are 3D mode, vector digitizer, and raster digitizer. The only errors are the following in the terminal at startup:

Launching GUI in the background, please wait…
GRASS 7.3.svn (nc_spm_08_grass7):~ > Unable to import pyGRASS: grass_gis.7.3.svn not found.
Some functionality will be not accessible

And the following in the console after startup:

3D view mode not available
Reason: grass_gis.7.3.svn not found.

Vector digitizer not available
Reason: cannot import name GV_LINES
Note that the wxGUI’s vector digitizer is currently disabled
(hopefully this will be fixed soon). Please keep an eye out
for updated versions of GRASS. In the meantime you can use
“v.digit” from the Develop Vector menu.

The 3D mode error seems similar to the pyGRASS not importing error
I’m not sure where GV_LINES comes from.

Any ideas on this? If these turn out to be the only problems, we are close to finally getting this issue resolved.

This is likely caused by the fact that the dynamic libraries are not loaded because the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored. If you disable SIP you will get past that.

Anyway I don’t understand why the modules are working (e.g. GRASS and GUI starts) and ctypes are not (v digitizer, 3D, PyGRASS depend on ctypes loading the GRASS libs). It seems that that’s the part needed to resolve this issue. (It is actually the same for Homebrew as well.)

PyGRASS should not be touched during startup and in GUI, so I don’t know where “Unable to import pyGRASS” is coming from but that’s a secondary issue not spotted elsewhere (it is also an old version).

Vaclav