GMT Mapping Tool: "sh: psbasemap: command not found"

[Eugene Morgan]

Dear OpendTect Users,

I'm trying to use the GMT plugin in OpendTect 6.0.0 on OS X 10.11.6. I keep getting the error message "sh: psbasemap: command not found" upon trying to create my map. I've installed the GMT-5.2.1 app, set the environment variable GMTROOT as /Applications/GMT-5.2.1.app/Contents/Resources, and added /Applications/GMT-5.2.1.app/Contents/Resources/bin to my PATH. I've done this for both my .bash_profile and .profile (sh shell, which GMT seems to use). I've also sourced gmt_functions.sh in my .profile, which *should* allow for calls to the old gmt commands (i.e., using the syntax before the gmt module was adopted in GMT5). My questions:

• Is OpendTect compatible with GMT5 (installed via bundle for mac os x)? There is no reference to GMT version numbering in the OpendTect documentation.
• Has anyone gotten the plugin to work with this sort of GMT5 install? If so, how? I would like to avoid having to re-install GMT from source to get this plugin working.
• Can anyone confirm that OpendTect is using sh shell? 

Any help with any of these questions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Eugene

[Raman Singh]

Hi Eugene,

Since version 6.0.2 onwards OpendTect supports GMT 5 on all platforms. When you launch OpendTect on Mac using the Application Launcher, it does not use the sh shell and therefore your environment variables are not effective. I am not sure if you can set system level environment variables in Mac, but an easy way out is to launch OpendTect from a terminal. The command would typically be:

open /Applications/OpendTect\ 6.0.0.app

Apart from GMTROOT and PATH, GMT will also need GMT_SHAREDIR variable to point to /Applications/GMT-5.2.1.app/Contents/Resources/share.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Raman K Singh

Manager Software Development

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[Eugene Morgan]

Hi Raman,

Yes, this works now that I've upgraded to 6.0.3, but only by launching from terminal. I set the system environment variables following these instructions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25385934/setting-environment-variables-via-launchd-conf-no-longer-works-in-os-x-yosemite (which also works for El Capitan), but still I get the "sh: psbasemap: command not found" error when opening  the app normally. Again, I get no errors when launching from terminal, which is fine. Thanks for your help!

-Eugene