[Xastir] Re: built-in shapelib (was :Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows)

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:02:02PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jdw at eng.uah.edu> flavor, containing:
> OK, this is weird.
> 
> First, it compiles fine now, and dbfawk compiles and works.
> 
> When I bring it up all looks OK.  When I zoom in, though, I am  
> suddenly in Briscoe County not far from the city of Mena.  Only  
> problem is, there is no Briscoe county or city names Mena in the  
> state, much less near me.  I look at where I grew up in TN at the  
> edge of the Cumberland Plateau, and as I zoom in Grand Canyon  
> National Park appears.
> 
> These maps have been working fine for a couple of years.  Did a cp -r  
> to get them into my test directory.
> 
> what the heck?????

Beats me.  This is not something that the difference between shared library
and static linked library versions should be responsible for.

WHen you say you did a cp -r to your "test directory" do you mean that your
new Xastir build is looking for maps in a different place than your old?  That 
is almost certainly the reason for the difference.

If I were you, I'd just put your old /usr/local back where it was, and rebuild
xastir with internal shapelib by using "--without-shapelib" instead of trying
to hide the external shapelib and all the /usr/local stuff.  When you 
specify "--without-shapelib" now, configure doesn't even look for a system-wide
installation, and always uses our internal version. You're best off doing this 
by having two different build directories and using a "--program-prefix".  
See README.CVS for details.

If you reduce the difference between versions to only the static-linked vs. 
dynamic linked shapelib, then I'm sure you'll see the anomalies you're 
describing go away.  They are too bizarre to be the result of switching with
shapelib you're using.

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