[Xastir] New user..and thanks..

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 11:04:33AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 02:16:41PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> > On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Jeff Mohler wrote:
> > 
> > > Im trying to add shapelib via the instructions and get this error in 'make
> > > lib':
> > > 
> > > /usr/bin/ld -G -h libshp.so.1 -o .libs/libshp.so.1.0.1   shpopen.lo
> > > shptree.lo dbfopen.lo  -lc
> > > dbfopen.lo: In function `DBFReadAttribute':
> > > /cygdrive/c/Documents and
> > > Settings/jmohler/src/shapelib/shapelib-1.2.10/dbfopen.c:716: undefined
> > > reference to `__getreent'
> > > /cygdrive/c/Documents and
> > > Settings/jmohler/src/shapelib/shapelib-1.2.10/dbfopen.c:724: undefined
> > > reference to `__getreent'
> > > make: *** [lib] Error 1
> > 
> > Tom:  Does the internal-Shapelib code compile properly on Cygwin, or
> > must the same change be made?
> 
> Just confirmed.  The internal shapelib code compiles Just Fine on cygwin.
> The "__getreent" issues are purely because of the attempt to build the shared
> library, which needs to have -lcywin linked in.  When using the internal
> shapelib, this is not necessary (no explicit linking of -lcygwin instead of
> -lc is necessary).

And because of this hassle and the fact that shapelib is so small, it might
be worthwhile for cygwin users who don't plan on using shapelib in other 
projects to just go ahead and use the internal one.  When I'm done with all
the other things I want to get done today, perhaps I'll update README.win32
and the wiki page to say just that.

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