Tom, Is there a way to "automajicitically" test for the presence of shapelib being installed from a package management system? Say maybe during the bootstrap or configure stages? Then have the make do the appropriate thing.
I can feel the bighting happening already. 73 Dave KB3EFS On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Tom Russo <ru...@bogodyn.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 02:43:30PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <ru...@bogodyn.org> flavor, containing: >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:59:43PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron >> collision of the <ka1...@earthlink.net> flavor, containing: >> > On 07/10/2010 11:07 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: >> > > >> > > Ah, I stand corrected. >> > > >> > > Then this means that Bill must have installed Shapelib in the OS. >> > > If he installed Shapelib from sources then he can build the tool >> > > there. >> > > >> > > If not, then removing the external Shapelib means he can re-run >> > > Xastir's configure and then build the tool in >> > > xastir/src/shapelib/contrib/ >> > > >> > I ran ./configure --without-festival --with-internal-shapelib >> > CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/geotiff", then make. Changed to the >> > ~/xastir/src/shapelib/contrib directory and did a make there. No luck. >> > I then unistalled shapelib, libshp-dev and libshp1 and ran ./configure >> > --without-festival CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/geotiff". Still no luck. >> > Configure says that it's using the internal shapelib library in both cases. >> >> Ah. I see what the issue is. >> >> There is no rule to create dbfinfo in our makefile. We only create dbfadd, >> dbfcreate, shpadd and shpcreate. Lemme see if I can fix that. > > Until just now, xastir's internal shapelib did not build any of the contrib > programs, only those at the same level as the rest of shapelib. Do a CVS > update, and then build Xastir with internal shapelib. dbfinfo will be > built and installed along with dbfadd, dbfcreate, shpadd and shpcreate. > > Note that this only builds shapelib and its tools with static linking for > Xastir, and does not install the library itself. If you already have > shapelib installed from a package management system, you should NOT do it > this way. In that case, you'll have to install dbfinfo from a shapelib source > distribution other than the one that lives in Xastir's source tree. > > -- > 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 > -- David A Aitcheson david.aitche...@gmail.com david.aitcheson on google and skype _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir