On Dec 11, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Radim Blazek wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Larry Shaffer <lar...@dakotacarto.com> > wrote: >> The GRASS-6.4.app, which is a bundled Mac app [0, Qt example] from >> Kyngchaos.com. But the same holds for the bundled QGIS.app: the Mac >> operating system, by default, does not pass in the full shell >> environment, as per a user's terminal profile, to a double-clicked >> bundled app. It only passes in a very basic env that does NOT even >> include /usr/local, PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc. There are tricks to >> get around this, but my idea is to allow the user to set the env >> inside of the QGIS preferences (much better). >> >> The custom env setup in QGIS for Mac could offer a button to load in >> common env setups, like for Kyngchaos.com frameworks, etc.
This is something I asked for as a general preference feature for QGIS: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3097 >> The Mac GRASS-6.4.app gets around these issues by first running a >> shell script to set up the env before launching the embedded binary >> [1]. So, when the user double-clicks GRASS-6.4.app everything is >> configured on launch. > It is not necessary to set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH before QGIS is started to > run GRASS modules because GRASS modules are executed as new processes > and it is enough to set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH when the process is started. > I am not sure however where the GRASS libs are located. I see the > libraries in > > GRASS-6.4.pkg/Contents/GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS/lib > > but the grass.sh [0] is setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to > > $HOME/Library/GRASS/Modules/lib:/Library/GRASS/6.4/Modules/lib > > Where is pointing the cmake GRASS_PREFIX? To the > GRASS-6.4.app/Contents/MacOS? Can we get the path to GRASS libs as > ${GRASS_PREFIX}/lib? > The Mac grass.sh startup only customizes the startup for OS X. The standard ${GRASS_PREFIX}/lib (and everything else) is set in init.sh, same as other platforms. > However, to get the QGIS GRASS plugin fully working (display and edit > GRASS maps, manage region), it is necessary to set the environment > before QGIS is started as you suggested. Or at QGIS startup from some configuration preference. ----- William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> http://www.kyngchaos.com/ "Those people who most want to rule people are, ipso-facto, those least suited to do it." - A rule of the universe, from the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
