[GRASSLIST:5551] cygwin installation

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Hi all,

What was wrong in this installation on Windows XP with Cygwin on it?
What does this mean:

[: None: bad number

I installed sunrpc but am not sure I installed all the cygwin packages needed corectly.
Could be that the packages for cygwin are old (about 1.5 years)?

ines klinkon@RACUNALNIK /usr/local
$ sh grass5_i686-pc-cygwin_install.sh grass5.0.0pre3_i686-pc-cygwin_bin.tar.gz

GRASS GIS 5 binary package installation tool

[: None: bad number
Using gunzip decompressor...
The package grass5.0.0pre3_i686-pc-cygwin_bin.tar.gz seems to be o.k.
Proceeding...

Checking and creating installation directory...
Installing GRASS binaries into /usr/local/grass5

Uncompressing the package and extracting to target directory...
Creating start script: /usr/local/bin/grass5
Creating the locks directory for monitors...

Installation finished. Start GRASS 5 with
    grass5

The graphical user interface can be started within GRASS GIS.

You can uninstall grass by typing
    sh grass5uninstall.sh
in the directory /usr/local/bin

Welcome to GRASS GIS. Enjoy this open source GNU GRASS GIS!

ines klinkon@RACUNALNIK /usr/local
$ grass5
[: klinkon/.grassrc5: unknown operand
usage: /usr/local/grass5/etc/lock file pid
Unable to properly access /home/ines klinkon/.gislock5
Please notify system personel.

ines klinkon@RACUNALNIK /usr/local
$

Thanks in advance

Miha Staut

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Miha STAUT wrote:

What was wrong in this installation on Windows XP with Cygwin on it?
What does this mean:

$ sh grass5_i686-pc-cygwin_install.sh
grass5.0.0pre3_i686-pc-cygwin_bin.tar.gz

GRASS GIS 5 binary package installation tool

[: None: bad number
Using gunzip decompressor...

The problem is most likely because the expression:

  SIZE=`ls -l $PACKAGE_NAME | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f5`

results in SIZE being set to "None". If so, the message will be
generated by the command:

  if [ $SIZE -ne $TAR_FILE_SIZE ] ; then

as the value before "-ne" must be a number, but "None" isn't a valid
number.

As for exactly why the error occurs, I suspect that one of the Cygwin
tools (probably "ls") isn't generating output in the format which the
script is assuming.

Incidentally, pre3 is quite old; a lot has been fixed since then.

--
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>