Hi, 2011/1/14 Benjamin Ducke <[email protected]>: > I Think I found a problem with OGR datasources linked > in using v.external. > > If I change into a directory with shapefiles and then > issue the following to link in the data in "myShapefile.shp": > > v.external dsn=. layer=myShapefile output=linked_in > > And then change into another directory and issue any command > that wants to work on "linked_in", e.g.: > > g.remove vect=linked_in > v.info linked_in > > I get: > > ERROR: Cannot open layer 'myShapefile' > > But when I change back into the directoy where I used > to be when running the v.external command, it works. > > So I think v.external should take care to always link > to the absolute location of the source in the file > system (if I specify "dsn=" as an absolute path, > things work fine).
at least it should print a warning. Please report it on trac. Martin -- Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
