[Xastir] dbinfo on Ubuntu 9.10

[Robert C. Rogers]

I just went through to see if I missed any dependencies....  I just 
reinstalled shapelib using Synaptic (I'm hoping that will clear 
everything out to get a clean install... I'm installing shapelib 1.2.10-4.1

Well that didn't work...  I have a spare laptop and will try a fresh 
install....  OS on up.... 

Thanks for your help....

73
Bob




Tom Russo wrote:
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>> Hello all...
>>
>> 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....
>>
>> Later tonight I'll run another install and post up the errors....
>>     
>
> I just booted my Ubuntu 9.10 virtual machine and tried to build 
> shapelib-1.3.0-b1 (the most recent).  I was unable to build dbfinfo without
> fixing the Makefile.
>
> If you're attempting to build dbfinfo in the current release of shapelib,
> it looks like the contrib directory's makefile was NOT kept up-to-date
> with the main code.   A new file of code intended to improve UTF-8 support
> was added to the build in the main directory, but not to the contrib
> builds.
>
> Look in the contrib directory, and add "../safileio.o" to the SHPOBJ
> variable definition.  This will make sure you don't get unresolved symbols
> ("SASetupHooks"), and dbfinfo will build.  If you add "#include <stdlib.h>" to 
> the dbfinfo.c file just above the include of shapefile.h, you'll also eliminate
> a number of warnings, but that would be unimportant --- a number of other 
> warnings persist anyway, and can be ignored.  But the omission of 
> safileio.o from the SHPOBJ is a deal breaker.  I have reported this 
> on the shapelib bug tracker.
>
> I confirmed that there is NO problem building dbfinfo unmodified in 
> shapelib-1.2.10, only 1.3.0.  That could account for the difference in 
> experiennces between you and Ray Wells.  
>
>