[Xastir] DBFAWK - Doin' it wrong?

[Curt Mills]

One could also turn on debug level 16. Might be of use in this case.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 8:37 AM Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 08:28:08AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kg4wsv at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 7:28 PM Chip Griffin <n1mie at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > >  the results of the DBFAWK are not equal.
> > >
> >
> > Could there be an additional dbfawk on the system that is not behaving as
> > expected?
> >
> > It's possible to hove more than one dbfawk that matches a particular file.
> > I beat my head against the wall for a short time trying to figure out why
> > my dbfawk wasn't working as expected when the reason was that another
> > dbfawk (in my case one that came with xastir) was kicking in first.
>
> Oooh.  Yeah, that's another way it could happen.
>
> > I do not recall the logic of how a dbfawk is selected when there are
> > multiple files that match the dbf signature.
>
> If there is a per-file dbfawk that matches the file's name (e.g. if
> you've got foo.dbf and foo.dbfawk exists, it is used).  Otherwise, the first
> one that matches the signature is used.
>
> However, the "first one that matches" is the first one in a linked list of
> pre-scanned dbf signatures, which is constructed by repeatedly making
> "readdir" calls on the config directory and scanning the files it finds.
> That probably means that the file that comes first lexicographically.
>
> The surest way to check whether this is happening is to copy your dbfawk
> to have the same name as the dbf file you want it to match, and put it in
> the same directory as the dbf file.  If the rendering changes, this is the
> problem and then you have to find the other file in the config directory
> that has the same dbfinfo line.
>
> Alternatively, rename your dbfawk file with "AAAA" as a prefix so it comes
> first in the readdir loop.  Either way, if the rendering changes, Jason's
> issue is the one that's your problem.
>
> --
> Tom Russo    KM5VY
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>
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