I'm reporting an error on behalf of a student.
She tried to install Wingrass 6.4RC2 on her
Windoze 7 machine and got the following error[1]
when trying to launch the program: Path names
containing spaces are not supported. Problem is
that she has confirmed all the default paths
during installation, also for grass data set.
Several students did the same also on Win 7
without problems. So, what's wrong? Please help..
you mean starting GRASS itself?
the error message is because MSys doesn't like
to be in C:\Program Files\ (it wants to be in e.g.
C:\osgeo4w\) and comes from mswindows/osgeo4w/msys.bat
but, GRASS-Packager.bat should have run:
rem delete msys.bat from osgeo4w because there is an adaption (for spaces in installation path) written by GRASS-Installer.nsi
del %PACKAGE_DIR%\msys\msys.bat
?
does the same happen with the nightly build of
6.4svn wingrass? maybe it is an osgeo4w packaging
thing??
I’m reporting an error on behalf of a student.
She tried to install Wingrass 6.4RC2 on her
Windoze 7 machine and got the following error[1]
when trying to launch the program: Path names
containing spaces are not supported. Problem is
that she has confirmed all the default paths
during installation, also for grass data set.
Several students did the same also on Win 7
without problems. So, what’s wrong? Please help…
you mean starting GRASS itself?
the error message is because MSys doesn’t like
to be in C:\Program Files\ (it wants to be in e.g.
C:\osgeo4w) and comes from mswindows/osgeo4w/msys.bat
but, GRASS-Packager.bat should have run:
rem delete msys.bat from osgeo4w because there is an adaption (for spaces in installation path) written by GRASS-Installer.nsi
del %PACKAGE_DIR%\msys\msys.bat
?
does the same happen with the nightly build of
6.4svn wingrass? maybe it is an osgeo4w packaging
thing??
Hamish, thanks for answering. The problem is both in WinGRASS-6.4.2RC2-1-Setup.exe from [1] and on daily WinGRASS-6.4.SVN-r49821-1-Setup.exe from [2]. Problem raises starting GRASS. Then, GRASS starts without the terminal.
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Eng. Margherita Di Leo
Ph.D. Candidate
Methods and Technologies for Environmental Monitoring
Department of Environmental Engineering and Physics (DIFA)
University of Basilicata
Campus Macchia Romana
85100 - Potenza
Italy
Margherita wrote:
> I'm reporting an error on behalf of a student.
> She tried to install Wingrass 6.4RC2 on her
> Windoze 7 machine and got the following error[1]
how was it installed? right click and "run as admin"?
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Hamish
the error message is because MSys doesn't like
to be in C:\Program Files\ (it wants to be in e.g.
C:\osgeo4w\) and comes from mswindows/osgeo4w/msys.bat
but, GRASS-Packager.bat should have run:
rem delete msys.bat from osgeo4w because there is an adaption (for spaces
in installation path) written >by GRASS-Installer.nsi
del %PACKAGE_DIR%\msys\msys.bat
this adapted msys.bat wasn't touched more than a year or so.
The problem is both in WinGRASS-6.4.2RC2-1-Setup.exe from [1] and on daily
WinGRASS-6.4.SVN-r49821-1-Setup.exe from [2].
Problem raises starting GRASS. Then, GRASS starts without the terminal.
I haven't tried these above mentioned wingrass-installer-version here on my
win7-64bit-box, I'll try it. but I had not any problems with daily builds on
this win7-64bit-box
this adapted msys.bat wasn't touched more than a year or so.
for the record:
root/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/mswindows/osgeo4w/msys.bat
Revision 40898, 7.1 KB (checked in by hamish, 23 months ago)
quote another path, comment out uneeded output (merge from trunk)