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 Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://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