[GRASS5] r.terraflow failure

[endeitz]

Sorry to keep pestering. . .

Where would I put the flag to compile with debugging symbols on?  Would it
suffice to just put it in the Makefile in the r.terraflow directory, or does
it have to appear higher up the tree?

Cheers,

Ed.


Andrew Danner wrote:
> 
> Ed,
> 
>  Yes, grass binaries can be run under gdb and perhaps other debuggers. I
> typically envoke gdb from within the GRASS command prompt so that the
> proper environment variables are already set up.
> 
> -Andy
> 
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 09:17 -0800, endeitz wrote:
>> Thanks very much for your help.  However, after replacing the fseek with
>> fseeko, the result is the same.  Can grass binaries be run under a
>> debugger(perhaps gdb)?  That way I could easily break on the value of the
>> offset to see if that is where it is crashing.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Ed.
>> 
>> 
>> Andrew Danner wrote:
>> > 
>> > My initial hunch is that this may be an fseek error. The function
>> > scan3line where the assertion fails is opening three file descriptors
>> or
>> > "substreams" on a single file and calling fseek to move to the
>> beginning
>> > of a particular row.  However, fseek takes a 32-bit long offset which
>> > overflows at 2GB. There is an fseeko in most stdio.h implementations
>> > that takes a 64 bit off_t offset and works for larger files. 
>> > 
>> > Unfortunately I do not have time in the near future to investigate this
>> > further. My initial suggestion is to change fseek to fseeko in line 397
>> > of 
>> > 
>> > raster/r.terraflow/IOStream/include/ami_stream.h
>> > 
>> > rebuild the terraflow module and see if that works. Certainly, calling
>> > fseek instead of fseeko is a problem, but I'm not sure if that is the
>> > only problem. Terraflow is using 64-bit types that handle offsets
>> larger
>> > than 2GB in a lot of other places, but it may be a bit buggy in spots. 
>> > 
>> > If you try the fix, let me know what happens and perhaps I can help out
>> > some more if things are still not working.  
>> > 
>> > 
>> > -Andy
>> > 
>> > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 08:24 -0800, endeitz wrote:
>> >> Just a followup to my previous message.  Instead of using the snapshot
>> >> binary
>> > 
>> > -snip-
> 
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