[Xastir] Shapelib & Cygwin

[Tom Tessier]

Hi,

I see you are running Fedora 3...try ./sbin/ldconfig

the /sbin path is not necessarily loaded by default, and that's where
ldconfig is found on my system. Typing the path explicitly may fix the
problem. Likewise with /sbin/ldconfig -v

-Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Friis" <wm5z at comcast.net>
To: "Dan Brown" <brown at brauhaus.org>; <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 1:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Shapelib & Cygwin


>
>
> Dan Brown wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Steve Friis wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>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"
> >>
> >>[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 ~]$
> >>
> >>I did a file search and it tells me "link broken" under type, but the
> >>file is there.
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >Without a bit more information, I'm going to be kinda guessing.
> >
> >First, Which version of linux?
> >
> >
> 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.
> >
> >Couple things to look at... First do:
> >
> >cat /etc/ld.so.config
> >
>
> [root at Laptop steve]# cat /etc/ld.so.config
> cat: /etc/ld.so.config: No such file or directory
>
>
> >
> >
> >and make sure it includes "/usr/local/lib" and a few other directories.
> >Mine looks like:
> >
> >myhost.org:~$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
> >
> >/usr/kerberos/lib
> >/usr/X11R6/lib
> >/usr/lib/sane
> >/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib
> >/usr/lib
> >/usr/local/lib
> >
> >Then, do:
> >
> >sudo ldconfig
> >
> >and see if that says anything.
> >
> [root at Laptop steve]# sudo ldconfig
> sudo: ldconfig: command not found
>
>
> >If you want, you can do:
> >
> >sudo ldconfig -v
> >
> >and it will spit out a bunch of stuff - look for libshp in the output.
> >
> >next try:
> >
> >ldd /usr/local/bin/xastir |grep libshp
> >
> >
> [root at Laptop steve]# ldd /usr/local/bin/xastir |grep libshp
>         libshp.so.1 => not found
>
> >it should tell you something like:
> >
> >myhost.org:~$ ldd /usr/local/bin/xastir |grep libshp
> >        libshp.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libshp.so.1 (0x40a32000)
> >
> >then:
> >
> >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*
> >
> >finally:
> >
> >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*
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Finally, if none of this works, you can compile xastir without shapelib
by
> >giving configure the option:
> >
> > --without-shapelib
> >
> >See the README.Getting-Started for more information on configure options.
> >
> >Hope this helps.
> >
> >73,
> >N8YSZ.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 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.
>
> >
> >
> >>Steve/WM5Z
> >>
> >>
> >>Dan Brown wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Steve Friis wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Yea, sure did. This is where it choked.
> >>>>
> >>>>[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]#
> >>>>
> >>>>So, do I just make the directory or edit the script? If I edit the
> >>>>script, what do I tell it?
> >>>>Steve
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Easiest is to just make the dir, imo.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Dan Brown wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Steve Friis wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>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.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>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.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>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.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>73, N8YSZ.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>--
> >>>>>Dan Brown
> >>>>>brown at brauhausdc.org
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>--
> >>>Dan Brown
> >>>brown at brauhausdc.org
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >--
> >Dan Brown
> >brown at brauhausdc.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
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