[GRASS5] v.in.shape/mif - the sequel

[Glynn Clements]

Eric G. Miller wrote:

> > on the source tree, but I can't find any reference to common dbm types. 
> > Does anyone see any problem with #include'ing dbm.h on any particular 
> > platform? Especially useful would be information about non-Gnu 
> > platforms. GNU systems like linux, cygwin should pick up gdbm which is good.
> 
> Anyway, I'm not aware of any addition of dbm since you last worked on
> GRASS.  I don't see any problem adding it, but maybe help out with
> configure rules?

It would at least need to check both -ldbm and -lgdbm (I don't know
about ndbm). Alternate library checks are already done for FFTW
(-lfftw, -ldfftw) and Tcl/Tk (-ltcl, -ltcl<version>).

I can add the configure.in rules if desired.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>