Re: [Xastir] snag trying to install shapelib via source onto mac os X 10.5
Jason, Curt, Tom Thank you for your help with this problem. I have not heard back from any of you following my last post, so figured you must have thought I was on the right track, and plowed ahead. Looking at your responses, I was able to patch up a solution, I believe. The instructions I followed left out a few other things as well, but since you mentioned this process was unnecessary, as shapelib is now incorporated into the Xastir download, I guess it's a moot point. Just for the record, however, the instructions after this snag were: 8) sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libshp.a 9) sudo mkdir /usr/local/include/libshp 10) sudo cp shapefil.h /usr/local/include/libshp I needed to add 8.1) mkdir /usr/local/include and a 9.1 step, changing the directory to the location I had the shapelib file so it could see the shapefil.h to copy it over. No major headaches, but these instructions were specifically posted as being helpful for a Macintosh user who had never seen a command line before, and that was a bit off the mark, I'd say. Thanks again. Hoping you will be willing to help with my next problem, for which I will start a new thread. 73 Tom On Sep 17, 2010, at 18:03, Tom Russo wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 05:43:27PM -0500, we recorded a bogon- computron collision of the kg4...@gmail.com flavor, containing: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:28 AM, T Wegner tow...@tds.net wrote: so I take it this means it's a file instead of a directory. Let me be perfectly honest here . . . I have no idea what I'm doing. lol Should I delete the lib file and make a lib directory here? You'll have to, before lots of stuff will install correctly. Is there something in that lib file of importance and I should not delete? That's the $64k question. I'd just rename it, then continue with the build process (a make install will most likely create /usr/local/ lib correctly for you). From an earlier email, there was a description of how libshp.a was *copied* to /usr/local/lib right before the attempted ranlib, but before /usr/ local/lib was created. I don't know what instructions Tom was following, but they're not the instructions from Xastir's INSTALL document (which tell one to run make lib_install in Shapelib's directory), but rather some platform-specific instructions from elsewhere. At any rate, libshp.a was simply cp'd into place, not installed. (BTW, Tom's note in which he shows the sudo log with a cp is: http://www.mail-archive.com/xastir@lists.xastir.org/msg04153.html ) Thus, there is a huge probability that the file /usr/local/lib is nothing more than the contents of libshp.a. Try running diff on the /usr/local/lib file and the libshp.a that was supposed to have been installed there. I betcha dollars to donuts it simply prints nothing, indicating that the files are identical. Another clue would be that libshp.a in the shapelib sources has the same size as /usr/local/lib. Renaming /usr/local/lib and then doing an mkdir /usr/local/lib is a prudent step that avoids deleting something permanently, but probably unnecessary since it is almost certainly the case that /usr/local/lib (the plain file) is just a copy of libshp.a. Removing it and then doing an mkdir (with appropriate chmod to get permissions right) will almost certainly be correct. -- Tom RussoKM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] snag trying to install shapelib via source onto mac os X 10.5
thanks for the response Jason Curt. using ls -l I get -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 63440 Sep 16 21:05 lib so I take it this means it's a file instead of a directory. Let me be perfectly honest here . . . I have no idea what I'm doing. lol Should I delete the lib file and make a lib directory here? Is there something in that lib file of importance and I should not delete? Is it possible this could be a permissions or location problem? Curt - yes on the os - 10.5.8 is one behind current; no on the intel - I had looked with great longing at the precompiled by J. McDermond . . . alas. Checked your link to the Mac Notes; have substantial time invested in the MacPorts method and would like to follow through with it until it works or my head is pounding . . . . 73 Tom On Sep 16, 2010, at 21:29, Jason KG4WSV wrote: Sounds like /usr/local/lib is not a directory. do cd /usr/local ls -l and take a look at lib. It should be a directory. mine looks like drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 442 Jun 17 15:35 lib see that d at the beginning of the line? it indicates a directory. You could have gotten a file (- in the first slot), or maybe a symbolic link (l in the first slot). If it's a link, look at the target to make sure it exists. FYI, xastir now has shapelib built in, so you can get by without it. I'd tell you not to worry about it, but if /usr/local/lib is broken you'll need to get it fixed before you're done, even if you skip shapelib. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] snag trying to install shapelib via source onto mac os X 10.5
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:28 AM, T Wegner tow...@tds.net wrote: so I take it this means it's a file instead of a directory. Let me be perfectly honest here . . . I have no idea what I'm doing. lol Should I delete the lib file and make a lib directory here? You'll have to, before lots of stuff will install correctly. Is there something in that lib file of importance and I should not delete? That's the $64k question. I'd just rename it, then continue with the build process (a make install will most likely create /usr/local/lib correctly for you). do cd /usr/local mv lib lib.wtf file lib.wtf That last command will (probably) give you a clue as to what sort of file it is. If mv give you permission denied, append sudo to the mv command and try again. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] snag trying to install shapelib via source onto mac os X 10.5
picking through the responses piece by piece guys. did this: bash-3.2$ Diff /usr/local/lib /Users/tomwegner/Downloads/ shapelib-1.2.10/libshp.a and got this: bash-3.2$ so I plan to do this: mv /usr/local/lib usr/local/whatsthis mkdir /usr/local/lib then start over with the instructions , skipping the first one (tar - xvzf shapelib-1.2.10.tar.gz) since I'm pretty sure that is a decompression step, and it's already been done. cd shapelib-1.2.10 cc -c shpopen.c cc -c shptree.c cc -c dbfopen.c ar cru libshp.a shpopen.o shptree.o dbfopen.o sudo cp libshp.a /usr/local/lib sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libshp.a sudo mkdir /usr/local/include/libshp sudo cp shapefil.h /usr/local/include/libshp does that sound good? I'm not sure what you mean by the chmod and what you think I should do with that. thanks for the help On Sep 17, 2010, at 18:03, Tom Russo wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 05:43:27PM -0500, we recorded a bogon- computron collision of the kg4...@gmail.com flavor, containing: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:28 AM, T Wegner tow...@tds.net wrote: so I take it this means it's a file instead of a directory. Let me be perfectly honest here . . . I have no idea what I'm doing. lol Should I delete the lib file and make a lib directory here? You'll have to, before lots of stuff will install correctly. Is there something in that lib file of importance and I should not delete? That's the $64k question. I'd just rename it, then continue with the build process (a make install will most likely create /usr/local/ lib correctly for you). From an earlier email, there was a description of how libshp.a was *copied* to /usr/local/lib right before the attempted ranlib, but before /usr/ local/lib was created. I don't know what instructions Tom was following, but they're not the instructions from Xastir's INSTALL document (which tell one to run make lib_install in Shapelib's directory), but rather some platform-specific instructions from elsewhere. At any rate, libshp.a was simply cp'd into place, not installed. (BTW, Tom's note in which he shows the sudo log with a cp is: http://www.mail-archive.com/xastir@lists.xastir.org/msg04153.html ) Thus, there is a huge probability that the file /usr/local/lib is nothing more than the contents of libshp.a. Try running diff on the /usr/local/lib file and the libshp.a that was supposed to have been installed there. I betcha dollars to donuts it simply prints nothing, indicating that the files are identical. Another clue would be that libshp.a in the shapelib sources has the same size as /usr/local/lib. Renaming /usr/local/lib and then doing an mkdir /usr/local/lib is a prudent step that avoids deleting something permanently, but probably unnecessary since it is almost certainly the case that /usr/local/lib (the plain file) is just a copy of libshp.a. Removing it and then doing an mkdir (with appropriate chmod to get permissions right) will almost certainly be correct. -- Tom RussoKM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] snag trying to install shapelib via source onto mac os X 10.5
actually, guessing no need to re-execute the cc and ar commands as that is probably already done and once is enough? from last post: picking through the responses piece by piece guys. did this: bash-3.2$ Diff /usr/local/lib /Users/tomwegner/Downloads/ shapelib-1.2.10/libshp.a and got this: bash-3.2$ so I plan to do this: mv /usr/local/lib usr/local/whatsthis mkdir /usr/local/lib then start over with the instructions , skipping the first one (tar - xvzf shapelib-1.2.10.tar.gz) since I'm pretty sure that is a decompression step, and it's already been done. cd shapelib-1.2.10 cc -c shpopen.c cc -c shptree.c cc -c dbfopen.c ar cru libshp.a shpopen.o shptree.o dbfopen.o sudo cp libshp.a /usr/local/lib sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libshp.a sudo mkdir /usr/local/include/libshp sudo cp shapefil.h /usr/local/include/libshp does that sound good? I'm not sure what you mean by the chmod and what you think I should do with that. thanks for the help ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] snag trying to install shapelib via source onto mac os X 10.5
Sounds like /usr/local/lib is not a directory. do cd /usr/local ls -l and take a look at lib. It should be a directory. mine looks like drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 442 Jun 17 15:35 lib see that d at the beginning of the line? it indicates a directory. You could have gotten a file (- in the first slot), or maybe a symbolic link (l in the first slot). If it's a link, look at the target to make sure it exists. FYI, xastir now has shapelib built in, so you can get by without it. I'd tell you not to worry about it, but if /usr/local/lib is broken you'll need to get it fixed before you're done, even if you skip shapelib. -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] snag trying to install shapelib via source onto mac os X 10.5
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, T Wegner wrote: I am in the process of installing Xastir on my Powerbook G4 (10.5.8) using the instructions at http://www.wx9grb.org/xastir/mac.htm which are attributed to Dana Rawding, N1OFZ (uses MacPorts for all but shapelib and geotiff). Have you check out this area as well? http://www.xastir.org/wiki/Installation_Notes#Mac_OSX I tried: cd /usr/local ls and can see 3 items in the local folder, one of which is lib but when I did: cd /usr/local/lib ls I get bash: cd: /usr/local/lib: Not a directory Try ls -al /usr/local and see if lib is listed as drw for the first few chars. d is a directory. Is that an Intel-processor Mac? A reasonably new OS? If so you might try Jeremy McDermond's pre-compiled Xastir for the Mac. I don't know the OS requirements for running it. -- Curt, WE7U. http://www.eskimo.com/~archer APRS: Where it's at!http://www.xastir.org Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
