Markus Neteler <nete...@osgeo.org> writes: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Tyler Smith <ty...@plantarum.ca> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm updating my Emacs grass-mode (available on MELPA, and also here: >> https://bitbucket.org/tws/grass-mode.el/wiki/Home ). >> >> Part of the configuration requires that users tell me where their grass >> binary, script and documentation files are. Since people may be using >> different versions, multiple versions, pre-packaged or compiled from >> source, I can't hard-code paths for this. > > Right. > > ... >> a reasonably robust way for users to find >> the information is: > > Please better use this (works "everywhere", also on non-Linux > systems): ask GRASS itself where it is - of course the startup script > needs to be in the PATH: >
You could always ask for the path to the grass startup script. > # Linux > grass70 --config path > /usr/local/grass-7.0.2svn > > # Windows > C:\>grass70.bat --config path > C:\OSGeo4W\apps\grass\grass-7.0 > > and so on. I always forget about the --config options But how robust is this? I think it is also only supported from 7 onwards (at least my 6.4.4 installation does not know the argument --config)? Rainer > > HTH, > Markus > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > grass-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982
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