[Xastir] map levels don't work

[Wes Johnston]

Hmmm... maybe PCRE is the problem?

Here's what ./configure shows me:
xastir 1.4.2 has been configured using the
following external libraries.
Building with AX25 ................ : no
Building with Festival ............ : yes
Building with GPSMan .............. : yes
Building with ImageMagick ......... : yes
Building with libproj ............. : yes
Building with GeoTiff ............. : no
Building with GDAL/OGR ............ : no
Building with ShapeLib ............ : yes
Building with pcre ................ : no
Building with dbfawk .............. : no
Building with ErrorPopups ......... : yes
Building with libgc (Debug) ....... : no
Building with profiling (Debug) ... : no


Wes
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Quoting Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org>:

> On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 01:28:48PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> > On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 03:04:28PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <wes at kd4rdb.com> flavor, containing:
> > >
> > > I finally got MAKE to show shapelib, and completed the compile and
> install, but
> > > now map levels don't work, nor do colors... water, rivers and streams are
> all
> > > black with no blue.  Could it be that I've installed shapelib in a place
> that
> > > MAKE finds, but another version of shapelib is found first in the path
> when
> > > called?
> >
> > What sort of shapefiles are you attempting to display?
>
> I should clarify why I ask these two questions:
>
> If you're not using a set of shapefiles that are already set up for use
> in xastir (i.e. either hardcoded in map_shp.c or set up with dbfawk files),
> you get the default behavior --- thin black lines, no level dependence.
>
> With dbfawk enabled, there needs to be a matching dbfawk file that describes
> how the data
>
> There is a small (and growing) number of dbfawk files installed along with
> xastir that allow some of the more popular shapefiles to be displayed
> in ways that some people thing looks good  (and now that I check, that means
> converted TIGER/Line data and weather alert counties).
>
> If you are using shapefiles that don't match those dbfawk files and have
> dbfawk enabled, you'll see what you describe.  You'd have to make your own
> dbfawk file to tell xastir how to display your map data.
>
> Without dbfawk is another matter.
>
> > Did you install PCRE and enable dbfawk?
>
> And my reason for asking this is that if you don't have PCRE installed or
> configure with "--without-dbfawk" then the only shapefile maps that will show
> up in color and respecting map level are the TIGER/Line shapefiles from ESRI
> (not the ones converted from 2003 TIGER/Line files), and a finite number of
> other types --- the coloring and such is hardwired into xastir in those
> cases,
> and the choice of what hardwired set of display choices to use is based on
> the file names (i.e. it looks for the patterns known to be used by the ESRI
> TIGER/Line set --- which means you mustn't rename them after downloading).
> Without PCRE and dbfawk the only way to get new types of shapefiles other
> than
> the types that are hard coded to display the way you want them is to add code
> to map_shp.c.
>
> --
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