I was finally able to compile GRASS 7.9 again, with the outstanding help of Nicklas Larsson on the GRASS dev team. So there are new versions of GRASS 7.8 (release branch as of 17 July 2020) and GRASS 7.9 (as of 25 July 2020) for you.
A further update of GRASS 7.9 dev. This one uses a newer Python (3.7.8) and has fixed the NVIZ positioning bug. Also has some very nice new, high res icons.
Hi Michael
Thank you for posting up the latest GRASS GIS 7.8 - I've been testing it out with r.in.pdal (which I was able sucessfully install via g.extension). I've had some difficulty installing orther extensions such as r.geomorphon in that g.extension appears to be looking for a directory to SDKs at /users/cmbarton/SDKs
I'm not sure if this would require a new version to resolve. I should tell you that r.in.pdal is working well. Thanks for your work.
Rob
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I ran into a new issue in which the most recent update of Apple's Command Line Developer Tools (11.5 beta) removed support for the subversion (svn) collaborative development environment. While GRASS development moved from svn to GitHub over a year ago, it seems that g.extension still requires svn for accessing the GRASS addons repository. So I added svn into the GRASS app for Mac so it will remain available. I just tested this on my Mac and it seems to work. Please let me know if anyone still runs into svn issues in using g.extension with this newest binary.
Including svn in the Mac app only fixes part of this problem. GRASS also needs access to compiler tools to to build extensions that need compiling (e.g. in C or C++). This has been an ongoing issue, but was supposedly solved by including compiling tools in the Mac app. Apparently, this is not yet working. There are possible work arounds I need to try and need to be tested. I still hope that this can be solved without asking Mac users to install Xcode and/or the Apple Developer Tools.