puzzling error message: arString(): Unable to access file. adLabelString()

[Bruce Raup]

I have narrowed down my problem (described below).  I repeatedly built
MapServer, adding more features each time, and it worked until I added
phpmapscript:

             --with-php=/usr/include/php                \
             --with-php-regex-dir=/home/braup/Builds/php-4.3.4/regex

It appears that the error messages in memory are not being handled
properly, as each unsuccessful build, the details of the message
changed.  Now it is

  "sLoadMapString(): Unable to access file. on() "

I think someone else recently wrote with a similar problem with php
mapscript.  If this isn't already a known bug, should I do something
other than this message to report it?  Are there any work-arounds?

Thanks,
Bruce

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:41:31 -0700, Bruce Raup <brauplists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just installed mapserver on a new Linux computer (config details
> below).  The build process went apparently flawlessly, and I copied
> the resulting "mapserv" to the cgi-bin directory.  I built it for use
> with MapScript, but haven't finished installed those parts.
>
> I tried a simple test, but only get the error message:
>
>   arString(): Unable to access file. adLabelString()
>
> which is the same message I get when I specifiy a nonexistent mapfile
> name.  When I use the query-less URL
> "http://glims.colorado.edu/cgi-bin/mapserv", I get the (normal?)
> response
>
>   No query information to decode. QUERY_STRING is set, but empty.
>
> The form of the first error message looks strange.  Running "strings"
> on the mapserv executable, I see functions called "loadScalebarString"
> and "loadLabelString", but not the subsets of these as in the error
> message.
>
> Any ideas what could be wrong?  TIA, Bruce
>
> Config details:
> $ ./mapserv -v
> MapServer version 4.4.1 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=PDF
> SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER
> SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT
> SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER INPUT=TIFF INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL
> INPUT=SHAPEFILE
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux glims 2.6.5-7.111.19-smp #1 SMP Fri Dec 10 15:10:58 UTC 2004
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> --
> Bruce Raup
> http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/
>


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http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/