[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1258: Trouble with external OGR sources and relative paths (v.external)

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#1258: Trouble with external OGR sources and relative paths (v.external)
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 Reporter:  benducke         |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect           |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  6.4.1                    
Component:  Vector           |     Version:  svn-trunk                
 Keywords:  v.external, OGR  |    Platform:  Linux                    
      Cpu:  Unspecified      |  
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 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).

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