> On Feb 22, 2015, at 9:22 PM, Michael Barton <michael.bar...@asu.edu> wrote: > > To help me understand, I have a couple of questions below. > >>> As for the other issues, I'll respond >>> >>> 1. There IS a link to the Kyngchaos frameworks page in the menu on the >>> right side that shows up on every page. On that frameworks page, it is >>> clearly stated that PROJ and UnixImageIO are a part of the GDAL Complete >>> package >>> >>> 2. AFAIK, the order of installing the main frameworks packages makes no >>> difference. The ones for which order matters are included in GDAL Complete. >>> If I am wrong here, please let me know and I will put a note on the site. >> >> On the main download page it does not state anything about installation >> order. I did not install GDAL first. Then I got several other errors. If it >> happened to me, I can only assume it will happen to others. > > Do you mean you had problems because you installed GRASS before the > frameworks or because you installed other frameworks before GDAL Complete?
The latter. I installed GRASS last. >> 3. No one has ever reported this permissions issue so far. I don't know what >> is causing it in this case (unless it is new for 7.0 stable). AFAIK, the >> only permissions issue is the need to have a writeable director called "bin" >> inside the GRASS folder if you are installing extensions. This is a weird >> quirk of the extensions build system on the Mac. If there is a new >> permissions issue for 7.0 stable, it needs to be reported. But I have built >> it in exactly the same way as I've built all other builds recently. >> >> It has actually happened with the betas for me I just neglected to report >> it. As it is, the package leaves a folder that the user will not have >> permission to access. This should not be a difficult thing to reproduce or >> fix. I would suspect that the folder is owned by root because root >> permissions are required to install, and you likely just need to clean up >> the permissions as I suggested. > > It does not require root access to install, just administrator access. Sorry for the oversimplification; thats what I meant. > Which is the folder lacking permissions? /Applications/GRASS? Correct, here are the installed permissions: drwx------ 3 503 wheel 102 Feb 22 14:09 GRASS > Is this perhaps a function of the new "feature" in OSX that puts roadblocks > for running things not downloaded from the app store? No, I don’t get a security warning. That folder just needs permissions set to 755 or similar at the end of the install… Sorry for not mentioning sooner. Best, Jeshua Lacock Founder/Engineer 3DTOPO Incorporated <http://3DTOPO.com> Phone: 208.462.4171 _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user