[GRASS-dev] mysys startup for win grass fails

4 different people here have downloaded the new wingrass installer. For all of them, the mysys startup did not work. It flashes a couple of terminal-like screens and exits.

Michael
____________________
C. Michael Barton
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University

voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
fax: 480-965-7671 SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC)
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that is the Jan15 installer - it is a known bug that has been fixed
right away but the installer is still posted - it would be really,
really great if the broken installer was removed - I get complaints
about that too from people who did not manage to get the previous one. I
suggest them to get the daily binary, they seem to work, but there is an
increasing number of users who are getting this broken installer and
get confused,

Helena

On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 12:20 -0700, Michael Barton wrote:

4 different people here have downloaded the new wingrass installer. For all of them, the mysys startup did not work. It flashes a couple of terminal-like screens and exits.

Michael
____________________
C. Michael Barton
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University

voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
fax: 480-965-7671 SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC)
www: www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu

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I believe Markus has the power to remove that binary. We should also
probably re-write the windows download page to direct users more
explicitly to the new nightly builds.

-Colin

2010/1/27 Helena Mitasova <hmitaso@unity.ncsu.edu>:

that is the Jan15 installer - it is a known bug that has been fixed
right away but the installer is still posted - it would be really,
really great if the broken installer was removed - I get complaints
about that too from people who did not manage to get the previous one. I
suggest them to get the daily binary, they seem to work, but there is an
increasing number of users who are getting this broken installer and
get confused,

Helena

On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 12:20 -0700, Michael Barton wrote:

4 different people here have downloaded the new wingrass installer. For all of them, the mysys startup did not work. It flashes a couple of terminal-like screens and exits.

Michael
____________________
C. Michael Barton
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University

voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
fax: 480-965-7671 SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC)
www: www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu

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Where is the daily binary?

Michael
______________________________
C. Michael Barton
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
USA

voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
fax: 480-965-7671(SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC)
www: http://csdc.asu.edu, http://shesc.asu.edu
    http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Helena Mitasova wrote:

that is the Jan15 installer - it is a known bug that has been fixed
right away but the installer is still posted - it would be really,
really great if the broken installer was removed - I get complaints
about that too from people who did not manage to get the previous one. I
suggest them to get the daily binary, they seem to work, but there is an
increasing number of users who are getting this broken installer and
get confused,

Helena

On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 12:20 -0700, Michael Barton wrote:

4 different people here have downloaded the new wingrass installer. For all of them, the mysys startup did not work. It flashes a couple of terminal-like screens and exits.

Michael
____________________
C. Michael Barton
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University

voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
fax: 480-965-7671 SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC)
www: www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu

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Michael Barton wrote:

4 different people here have downloaded the new wingrass installer. For
all of them, the mysys startup did not work. It flashes a couple of
terminal-like screens and exits.

Does this patch help:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=2435&atid=102435&file_id=256586&aid=1840961

?

FWIW, I can start GRASS with the MSys installation directory renamed
to "c:\m sys" (this is using cmd.exe, not MSys/rxvt).

Scripts don't work; I suspect that the _spawnlp() in g.parser may
require quoting (or switching to G_spawn(), or supporting something
like the -s switch).

BTW, regarding gui/tcltk/gis.m/gis.m.bat:

  @start "%GRASS_WISH%" "%GISBASE%/etc/gm/gm.tcl

1. the final double-quote is missing.

2. "start" seems to treat a quoted first argument as the title, so
this may need to be e.g.

  @start "gis.m" "%GRASS_WISH%" "%GISBASE%/etc/gm/gm.tcl"

--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso@unity.ncsu.edu> wrote:

that is the Jan15 installer - it is a known bug that has been fixed
right away but the installer is still posted - it would be really,
really great if the broken installer was removed -

Done so (not only me can do that).

I get complaints
about that too from people who did not manage to get the previous one.

I have now posted the latest of the daily binaries from Martin.

I suggest them to get the daily binary, they seem to work, but there is an
increasing number of users who are getting this broken installer and
get confused,

So, should hopefully no longer happen.

Markus

Colin wrote:

We should also probably re-write the windows download page
to direct users more explicitly to the new nightly builds.

note that the nightly build needs some adjustment, grass70.bat files
are making it into the 6.4 build and the msys.bat hacks are not applied?
(we should just put our version in svn and overcopy it as part of the
packaging script)

Hamish