[Xastir] Shapelib & Cygwin

Gerry Creager N5JXS gerry.creager at tamu.edu
Thu Jun 2 07:23:09 EDT 2005 

And a follow-up to this.  'man sudo' to learn how to make the sudo 
command work allowing you to do root tasks without being in the root 
account.  Useful for the administrator, makes it less likely you'll be 
wondering where all your disk contents went...

gerry

Dan Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Tom Tessier wrote:
> 
> 
>>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
> 
> 
> Couple other bits - 
> 
> You probably want to create a non root user, rather than trying to
> do everything as root. 
> 
> I goofed on the "/etc/ld.so.config" should just be /etc/ld.so.conf
> 
> 
>>-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
>>>
> 
> 
> See above - This is a typo on my part (sorry) you need /etc/ld.so.conf
> 
> 
>>>>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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