[Xastir] ESRI shapefiles and dbfawk

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:02:45PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jewen at shaw.ca> flavor, containing:
> > I mean that when you do a "make" it gets created in the "src" 
> > directory, but when you do "make install" it isn't copied 
> > into /usr/local/bin.  It's meant for debugging purposes and 
> > so isn't installed.
> 
> Okay, so 'make' actually compiles the program from the source code, and
> 'make install' simply copies it to the appropriate directory?

Nod.  Well, actually, if you don't do "make" first, "make install" both
compiles and copies.

> > Do you see an error message on the console saying something 
> > to the effect of "No matching DBFAWK signature for ...." when 
> > your shapefile is loaded?
> 
> Nope... I get a bunch of errors because I don't have my dbfawk file setup
> properly... 8)
> 
> I did try running testawk on my ROADSEG.dbfawk file and got a nice
> segmentation fault.

Sigh.  Please send me a copy of this dbfawk file that causes a segfault,
and I'll see if I can't bulletproof testawk a little.  

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