[Xastir] dbinfo on Ubuntu 9.10

[Ray Wells]

Yep,

Built in all options. Shapefiles are certainly working with WXSVR-AU.

Is there anything I can check out for you?

Ray vk2tv

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 09:26:18AM +1100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <vk2tv at exemail.com.au> flavor, containing:
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>> I recently compiled xastir on a clean 'buntu 9.10 installation. I 
>> followed the wiki and xastir worked first time.
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> But did you build shapelib and dbfinfo?  That's what the OP was asking about.
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>> Ray vk2tv
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>> Tom Russo wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 12:56:57PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
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>>>> On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Robert Rogers wrote:
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>>>>> A long time ago I had dbfinfo working.... Of course that was 4 machines
>>>>> ago....
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to get it going on a couple of my laptops and it bombed out on
>>>>> install...  Is there a trick specific to Ubuntu or something else....
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>>>> Check that you have PCRE plus the PCRE development headers installed
>>>> before running configure.
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>>> That's dbfawk, not dbfinfo.  dbfinfo is one of the "contrib" programs from
>>> shapelib --- and is not installed by the shapelib package on Ubuntu.  The only
>>> option is to build shapelib from source and descend into the contrib directory
>>> to build it.
>>>
>>> Haven't tried that lately.  Might try on my 9.10 virtual machine and see if
>>> there's some oddness that needs fixed.
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