[Xastir] dbinfo on Ubuntu 9.10

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:34:09AM +1100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <vk2tv at exemail.com.au> flavor, containing:
> Yep,
> 
> Built in all options. Shapefiles are certainly working with WXSVR-AU.
> 
> Is there anything I can check out for you?

Were there any errors in the compilation of dbfinfo (in the contrib directory
of shapelib)?  Can you run dbfinfo on a shapefile and see its signature?

> 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:
> >   
> >> I recently compiled xastir on a clean 'buntu 9.10 installation. I 
> >> followed the wiki and xastir worked first time.
> >>     
> >
> > But did you build shapelib and dbfinfo?  That's what the OP was asking about.
> >
> >   
> >> Ray vk2tv
> >>
> >> Tom Russo wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 12:56:57PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Robert Rogers wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>>>> 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....
> >>>>>       
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Check that you have PCRE plus the PCRE development headers installed
> >>>> before running configure.
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> 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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