[Xastir] Shapelib & Cygwin

Thu Jun 2 02:11:31 EDT 2005

Dan Brown wrote:

>On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Steve Friis wrote:
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>>OK, so I did make the directory, ran the script and that worked ok it 
>>seems.
>>Then I redid the "./configure" and make and "make install. All seemed to 
>>run without a hitch. However when I now run "xastir &" it breaks. It use 
>>to run before only without shapelib. The error message says"
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>>[steve at Laptop ~]$ xastir &
>>[1] 9573
>>xastir: error while loading shared libraries: libshp.so.1: cannot open 
>>shared object file: No such file or directory
>>[steve at Laptop ~]$
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>>I did a file search and it tells me "link broken" under type, but the 
>>file is there.
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>>I really would appreciate your help fixing this. I would really miss not 
>>having xastir work onthe laptop. I am really new to linux, so don't 
>>understand all the workings of this OS.
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>Without a bit more information, I'm going to be kinda guessing. 
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>First, Which version of linux? 
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Fedora 3

>It sorta sounds like shapelib didn't actually get installed, for whatever
>reason, though, if Xastir thought it found it, something may need to be
>fixed someplace. 
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>Couple things to look at... First do: 
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>cat /etc/ld.so.config
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[root at Laptop steve]# cat /etc/ld.so.config
cat: /etc/ld.so.config: No such file or directory

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>and make sure it includes "/usr/local/lib" and a few other directories. 
>Mine looks like: 
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>myhost.org:~$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf 
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>/usr/kerberos/lib
>/usr/X11R6/lib
>/usr/lib/sane
>/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib
>/usr/lib
>/usr/local/lib
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>Then, do: 
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>sudo ldconfig 
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>and see if that says anything. 
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[root at Laptop steve]# sudo ldconfig
sudo: ldconfig: command not found

>If you want, you can do: 
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>sudo ldconfig -v 
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>and it will spit out a bunch of stuff - look for libshp in the output. 
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>next try: 
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>ldd /usr/local/bin/xastir |grep libshp 
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[root at Laptop steve]# ldd /usr/local/bin/xastir |grep libshp
        libshp.so.1 => not found

>it should tell you something like: 
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>myhost.org:~$ ldd /usr/local/bin/xastir |grep libshp
>        libshp.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libshp.so.1 (0x40a32000)
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>then:
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>myhost.org:~$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libshp.so.1
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Feb 27 15:11 /usr/local/lib/libshp.so.1 -> libshp.so.1.0.1*
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>finally: 
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>myhost.org:~$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libshp.so.1.0.1 
>-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        74276 Feb 27 15:11 /usr/local/lib/libshp.so.1.0.1*
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>If something like that last file isn't there, then shapelib probably didn't
>get built or installed correctly.  I'd probably try re-running the script
>and watching the output to see if that gives you any clues.  You can also
>read through the script to see what it is doing - there isn't too much
>there that is complicated.  Finally, if you look under
>xastir/tmp/shapelib-1.2.10 you'll see a README and a Makefile there - they
>should have some good information about building and installing shapelib. 
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>Finally, if none of this works, you can compile xastir without shapelib by
>giving configure the option:
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> --without-shapelib
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>See the README.Getting-Started for more information on configure options. 
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>Hope this helps. 
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>73, 
>N8YSZ. 
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Thanks for any help. The whole idea is to get shapelib working so I can 
have xastir working with portable maps rather than just the online 
".geo" maps. I want to be able to use this in the field in SAR work 
(Search and rescue). This is the only program that I have found that can 
do the job. I have it up and running (without shapelib) on the other 
PC's here all under Linux as that is all I use anymore. The idea would 
be to find and install topographic maps for our juristiction and set up 
a mobile base station. Then at least one member of each team in the 
field would carry an HT with a GPS+radio+Tinytracker to give their 
locations at programmed times. This would allow keeping track of the 
teams locations. Would allow assuring complete coverage of search areas 
and in the event of a casualty being able to dispatch to the exact 
location where aid is needed.

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>>Steve/WM5Z
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>>Dan Brown wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Steve Friis wrote:
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>>>>Yea, sure did. This is where it choked.
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>>>>[root at Laptop Steve]# perl get_shapelib.sh
>>>>Checking for sudo
>>>>/usr/bin/sudo found - validating /usr/bin/sudo privilages
>>>>Ok, we can continue
>>>>ERROR: /root/src/xastir/tmp Doesn't appear to exsit.
>>>>Please create dir and/or edit script. Exiting
>>>>[root at Laptop Steve]#
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>>>>So, do I just make the directory or edit the script? If I edit the 
>>>>script, what do I tell it?
>>>>Steve
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>>>Easiest is to just make the dir, imo. 
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>>>>Dan Brown wrote:
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>>>>>On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Steve Friis wrote:
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>>>>>>Looks like you did a great job for sygwin. What would I need to change 
>>>>>>in that script to make it work for Fedora3 Linux? I have not been able 
>>>>>>to get shapelib to load with my distro.
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>>>>>Did you try it? If so, did it work? Lemmi know. IIRC, it did work 
>>>>>on Redhat 9, which should be pretty close to FC3. 
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>>>>>FWIW, if you look at the script, it doesn't really do a whole lot other
>>>>>than what one would do manually.  The fixes are documented in the
>>>>>README.win32 file, all most of what I did was to automate applying the
>>>>>fixes, using sed. 
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>>>>>73, N8YSZ. 
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>>>>>--
>>>>>Dan Brown 
>>>>>brown at brauhausdc.org
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>>>--
>>>Dan Brown 
>>>brown at brauhausdc.org
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>--
>Dan Brown 
>brown at brauhausdc.org
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