William - many thanks! I will be following your first instruction since I am using a 6.4 RC.

Cheers,
Richard

On 14/09/10 9:06 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
If you mean, install 6.4.0 without overwriting 6.4 RCs:

After you "make", don't "make install".  Instead "make bindist".  After it 
creates the Mac installer package, it leaves a full copy in macosx/dist (the staging area for creating the 
installer package), which you can move to whereever you like (or rename it).

If you mean, install GRASS 6.4.x without overwriting 6.3, then that's not a 
problem since the applications are named with the major.minor version.


Note that existing builds of Qgis.app will still use the older GRASS install, 
because of library linking, and setting the GRASS_GIS_BASE in Qgis to try to 
make it use the newer GRASS will only cause trouble.  Qgis must be rebuilt to 
use the newer GRASS.

On Sep 13, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:

Hi,

I'm running a MacBook Pro with 10.4.1 (burned too many times with upgrade 
instability; now that it's running nice, I don't feel any desire to upgrade the 
OS!).

My main question is this: how can I install the new 6.4 without over-writing my 
existing install? (Just in case I have trouble with the new version). Noting, 
of course, that because I'm on an aged OS, I have to use the 
compile-from-source instructions for OSX.

Richard
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