[Xastir] Map Pointer Wiki Page

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:45:02PM -0700, a Mr. Richard Feyler of Fort Lee, New Jersey <jeepin95 at comcast.net> writes 'Dear Rosanne Rosannadanna':
> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 15:06, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> > >
> > > You need to run with "dbfawk" enabled in Xastir.  You'll need to
> > > start at the configure stage and do this:
> > >
> > >     ./configure --with-dbfawk
> > 
> 
> I tried as you suggested, no go...after running that it lists what is
> enabled, Building with dbfawk........ : no
> I've tried a couple of times, and copied and pasted to make sure I
> wasn't tying wrong. I've looked around and not found any other libraries
> or anything to build separatl for dbfawk support, just the --with-dbfawk
> command when configuring Xastir. Is there another library to build, or
> that I need to build differently?

You must have pcre installed.  Do you?

This is a hole in the INSTALL document.  It says pcre is recommended
for shapefile maps, but doesn't actually say that it's a prerequisite
for dbfawk.  It is.

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