[Xastir] interesting shapefile experiment

[vic]

Thank you very much, Gerry for responding.... I am getting very frustrated 
with this.

  I thought the same thing for awhile and have tried to be sure everyting is 
referenced.

  The thing that blows my mind is that I can run bootstrap.sh on a FRESH cvs 
download on the 9.1 box (as if xastir was never on the 9.1 box), move the 
source tree to the 9.0 box, run condfigure, than move the source tree back to 
the 9.1 box, run make, and the executable will work everytime. Make picks up 
shapefile support just fine.  Only when I perform configure on the 9.1 box 
(after bootstrap, etc.) and then compile and install does the executable fail 
to support shapefiles.  Compiling, installing and running is done on the 9.1 
box. Shapefile and other extrnal libs for Xastir are  identically installed 
on each box, version and everything.

I even see the maps come and go in the map list depending on which executable 
is run. Reindexing works with an error to screen of  *** Uknown map type  
(shapefile name) for the executable configured on the 9.1 box.

I do not know programming hardly at all, but it looks to me like the configure 
script is a perl script and maybe it's a perl issue. Or maybe configure calls 
some other script during its operation and the problem could be there.

How is it possible for the configure script to come up with so diffrerent 
outcomes against the same external libraries, same rpm and same sources?
Configure even says shapefile support will be compiled in, when run on the 9.1 
box, and the compile says lshp during linking, but the exe. only sees the 
dir. the shape files are in and not the *.shp files.

Sorry for being long winded, I don't know how to explain it any other way...

Thanks again and best regards,

Victor




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On Sunday 17 August 2003 07:12 am, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> My first suspicion is that there's a lib that's been compild but
> improperly (or not at all) referenced in /etc/ld.so.conf and/or, that
> /sbin/ldconfig never got rerun afterwards.
>
> This, of course, on the 9.1 box.

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