[Xastir] snag trying to install shapelib via source onto mac os X 10.5

[T Wegner]

picking through the responses piece by piece guys.

did this:

bash-3.2$ Diff /usr/local/lib /Users/tomwegner/Downloads/ 
shapelib-1.2.10/libshp.a

and got this:

bash-3.2$

so I plan to do this:

mv /usr/local/lib usr/local/whatsthis
mkdir /usr/local/lib

then start over with the instructions , skipping the first one (tar - 
xvzf shapelib-1.2.10.tar.gz) since I'm pretty sure that is a  
decompression step, and it's already been done.

cd shapelib-1.2.10
cc -c shpopen.c
cc -c shptree.c
cc -c dbfopen.c
ar cru libshp.a shpopen.o shptree.o dbfopen.o
sudo cp libshp.a /usr/local/lib
sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libshp.a
sudo mkdir /usr/local/include/libshp
sudo cp shapefil.h /usr/local/include/libshp

does that sound good?

I'm not sure what you mean by the chmod and what you think I should do  
with that.

thanks for the help


On Sep 17, 2010, at 18:03, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 05:43:27PM -0500, we recorded a bogon- 
> computron collision of the <kg4wsv at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:28 AM, T Wegner <towegn at tds.net> wrote:
>>> so I take it this means it's a file instead of a directory. Let me  
>>> be
>>> perfectly honest here . . . I have no idea what I'm doing. lol
>>>
>>> Should I delete the lib file and make a lib directory here?
>>
>> You'll have to, before lots of stuff will install correctly.
>
>>> Is there something in that lib file of importance and I should not  
>>> delete?
>>
>> That's the $64k question.  I'd just rename it, then continue with the
>> build process (a "make install" will most likely create /usr/local/ 
>> lib
>> correctly for you).
>
> From an earlier email, there was a description of how libshp.a was  
> *copied*
> to /usr/local/lib right before the attempted ranlib, but before /usr/ 
> local/lib
> was created.  I don't know what instructions Tom was following, but  
> they're
> not the instructions from Xastir's INSTALL document (which tell one  
> to run
> "make lib_install" in Shapelib's directory), but rather some  
> platform-specific
> instructions from elsewhere.  At any rate, libshp.a was simply  
> "cp"'d into
> place, not "installed."
>
> (BTW, Tom's note in which he shows the sudo log with a "cp" is:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/xastir@lists.xastir.org/msg04153.html
> )
>
> Thus, there is a huge probability that the file /usr/local/lib
> is nothing more than the contents of libshp.a.  Try running diff on  
> the
> /usr/local/lib file and the libshp.a that was supposed to have been  
> installed
> there.  I betcha dollars to donuts it simply prints nothing,  
> indicating that
> the files are identical.  Another clue would be that libshp.a in the  
> shapelib
> sources has the same size as /usr/local/lib.
>
> Renaming /usr/local/lib and then doing an mkdir /usr/local/lib is a  
> prudent
> step that avoids deleting something permanently, but probably  
> unnecessary
> since it is almost certainly the case that /usr/local/lib (the plain  
> file) is
> just a copy of libshp.a.  Removing it and then doing an mkdir (with  
> appropriate
> chmod to get permissions right) will almost certainly be correct.
>
> -- 
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