Msys-based commands fail when winGRASS is installed in %ProgramFiles%

[Luigi Ponti]

Current standalone winGRASS installer (I used that of 20 Jan 2010 on Windows 7) defaults to %ProgramFiles% and this seems to prevent all sh.exe-based commands to work properly. E.g. d.shadedmap and r.shaded.relief fail with the following error message:

r.shaded.relief map=dem                                                
/c/Program: Files\GRASS-64-SVN\msys\bin\sh.exe: No such file
or directory

This should be related to ​http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/714 ​http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2010-January/048199.html

Also see this post: ​http://n2.nabble.com/GUI-with-python-scripts-tp4435076p4440590.html

which says that installing 6.4.0-SVN snapshots in %ProgramFiles% won't work until the recent changes to the G_spawn* functions have been back-ported. The current 6.4.0 code is known not to work with spaces in $GISBASE. 6.5 should work (although based upon recent comments, MSys might need to be installed in C:\msys).

[hamish]

please use the 'wingrass' keyword for wingrass bugs, thanks. H

[hamish]

hi, could you try the latest nightly wingrass build? I think this is now fixed.

Hamish

[Luigi Ponti]

Replying to hamish:

hi, could you try the latest nightly wingrass build? I think this is now fixed.

Hi, I tried r.shaded.relief with WinGRASS-6.4.SVN-r41137 and it works perfectly fine.
I changed the ticket to fixed: is this OK?
Thanks,
Luigi

Hamish

[hamish]

Replying to lponti:

Hi, I tried r.shaded.relief with WinGRASS-6.4.SVN-r41137 and it works perfectly fine.

good

I changed the ticket to fixed: is this OK?

sure