I have been using GRASS on my Mac running OS X for a couple of years without trouble. The major caveat is that I have not needed the database access routines. I haven't had time to investigate them yet, so am not much help to you there. However, other people should not get the impression that GRASS as a whole is a problem under OS X. The commands that I regularly use all work perfectly, and it is news to me that the database stuff doesn't.
I normally compile from source on my own machine, but I get a lot of the packages GRASS depends on from fink. I have been following development versions of 5.0.x with regular recompiles, and haven't had any troubles in months getting it to compile. The GRASS development people have been making a good effort to make the build system recognize the OS X platform and use the proper compile-time adjustments. And just recently, the "experimental" GRASS 5.1 was successfully modified to compile under OS X too.
A colleague of mine (and I provide most of his "tech support" on this) uses GRASS from fink, and has had no troubles (but he doesn't use the postgres stuff either). I think that this is a good option for installing GRASS, and am sorry to hear you didn't hear from the maintainer about your troubles. The R stats package IS available through fink, by the way, contrary to what you wrote in one of your posts. Perhaps we can discuss what specifically was wrong with the package ? Again, if it has only to do with the postgres stuff, I'm probably not too useful. I have seen lots of traffic going by on the fink mailing lists about postgres, so perhaps someone out there is using the combination and can help. I'd be willing to experiment, but will have learning curve and time management issues, especially as the new term begins.
In short, I'm sorry to hear you're having problems, but I think it should be clear to other people that these problems seem to be specific to the integration of GRASS and external database systems, not to the GRASS system as a whole.
Cheers,
Scott
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Scott W. Mitchell Scott_Mitchell AT carleton.ca
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Carleton University, B349 Loeb Building
Ottawa, ON Canada
There have been a FEW posts on this recently, I think it all started with:
On Wednesday, Sep 3, 2003, at 01:01 Canada/Eastern, Multiple recipients of list wrote:
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 09:23, Bill Dickinson Jr wrote:
Hey there:
I have been running in circles for about 2 months now trying to get
GRASS installed on my OS X box and have yet to get it successfully
running. If there is someone out there who has successfully installed
and is currently running GRASS on their Mac, and would have the time> to talk me through yet another installation attempt, I would
appreciate the assist. My "friends" keep telling me to stop beating
my head against the OS X wall and simply use a Linux box, but being a
Mac-fanatic I would really like to have it working on my Mac.Thanks.
Bill
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