[GRASS-dev] Bad map deletion beahviour with external OGR sources

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2011/1/14 Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk>:
> I Think I found a problem with OGR datasources linked
> in using v.external.
>
> If I change into a directory with shapefiles and then
> issue the following to link in the data in "myShapefile.shp":
>
>  v.external dsn=. layer=myShapefile output=linked_in
>
> And then change into another directory and issue any command
> that wants to work on "linked_in", e.g.:
>
>  g.remove vect=linked_in
>  v.info linked_in
>
> I get:
>
>  ERROR: Cannot open layer 'myShapefile'
>
> But when I change back into the directoy where I used
> to be when running the v.external command, it works.
>
> So I think v.external should take care to always link
> to the absolute location of the source in the file
> system (if I specify "dsn=" as an absolute path,
> things work fine).

at least it should print a warning. Please report it on trac. Martin

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