[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #110: db/drivers/dbf fail to build due to undefined reference to 'SASetupDefaultHooks' (SHAPELIB)

[GRASS GIS]

#110: db/drivers/dbf fail to build due to undefined reference to
'SASetupDefaultHooks' (SHAPELIB)
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  Reporter:  marisn    |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  critical  |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
 Component:  default   |     Version:  svn-trunk                
Resolution:            |    Keywords:  dbf                      
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Comment (by neteler):

 Question to Frank: Should we stop syncing SHAPELIB from GDAL? I dunno.
 At least it will become hard to backport SHAPELIB fixes in future.


 Comment from Glynn:

 On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
 wrote:
 ...
 >  They appear to be part of GDAL, so GDAL is now a dependency of the DBF
 >  driver:
 ...
 >  Markus: is this change really necessary? Specifically, is the
 >  GDAL-isation actually necessary?
 >
 >  AFAICT, apart from some sanity checks in SHPReadObject(), the change
 >  is almost entirely down to using GDAL's custom I/O interface.
 >
 >  I would have thought it would be better to just add the sanity checks
 >  and do without GDAL's I/O interface, particularly as the code can only
 >  ever use the default hooks (which presumably are just the stdio
 >  function).

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