[GRASS-dev] Shapelib update?

[Markus Neteler]

Hi,

we are using an older copy of shapelib in GRASS (circa 2008). The
changelog differences of
 lib/external/shapelib/dbfopen.c
look like this:

 * $Log: dbfopen.c,v $
 * Revision 1.88  2011-05-13 17:35:17  fwarmerdam
 * added DBFReorderFields() and DBFAlterFields() functions (from Even)
 *
 * Revision 1.87  2011-05-07 22:41:02  fwarmerdam
 * ensure pending record is flushed when adding a native field (GDAL #4073)
 *
 * Revision 1.86  2011-04-17 15:15:29  fwarmerdam
 * Removed unused variable.
 *
 * Revision 1.85  2010-12-06 16:09:34  fwarmerdam
 * fix buffer read overrun fetching code page (bug 2276)
 *
 * Revision 1.84  2009-10-29 19:59:48  fwarmerdam
 * avoid crash on truncated header (gdal #3093)
 *
 * Revision 1.83  2008/11/12 14:28:15  fwarmerdam
 * DBFCreateField() now works on files with records
 *
 * Revision 1.82  2008/11/11 17:47:09  fwarmerdam
 * added DBFDeleteField() function
 *
 * Revision 1.81  2008/01/03 17:48:13  bram
 * in DBFCreate, use default code page LDID/87 (= 0x57, ANSI)
 * instead of LDID/3.  This seems to be the same as what ESRI
 * would be doing by default.
 *
 * Revision 1.80  2007/12/30 14:36:39  fwarmerdam
 * avoid syntax issue with last comment.
 *
 * Revision 1.79  2007/12/30 14:35:48  fwarmerdam
 * Avoid char* / unsigned char* warnings.
 *
 * Revision 1.78  2007/12/18 18:28:07  bram
 * - create hook for client specific atof (bugzilla ticket 1615)
 * - check for NULL handle before closing cpCPG file, and close after reading.
 *
 * Revision 1.77  2007/12/15 20:25:21  bram
 * dbfopen.c now reads the Code Page information from the DBF file, and exports
 * this information as a string through the DBFGetCodePage function.  This is
 * either the number from the LDID header field ("LDID/<number>") or as the
 * content of an accompanying .CPG file.  When creating a DBF file, the code can
 * be set using DBFCreateEx.
 *
 * Revision 1.76  2007/12/12 22:21:32  bram
 * DBFClose: check for NULL psDBF handle before trying to close it.
 *
 * Revision 1.75  2007/12/06 13:58:19  fwarmerdam
 * make sure file offset calculations are done in as SAOffset
 *

The shpopen.c differences are:

 * $Log: shpopen.c,v $
 * Revision 1.68  2010-08-27 23:42:52  fwarmerdam
 * add SHPAPI_CALL attribute in code
 *
 * Revision 1.67  2010-07-01 08:15:48  fwarmerdam
 * do not error out on an object with zero vertices
 *
 * Revision 1.66  2010-07-01 07:58:57  fwarmerdam
 * minor cleanup of error handling
 *
 * Revision 1.65  2010-07-01 07:27:13  fwarmerdam
 * white space formatting adjustments
 *
 * Revision 1.64  2010-01-28 11:34:34  fwarmerdam
 * handle the shape file length limits more gracefully (#3236)
 *
 * Revision 1.63  2010-01-28 04:04:40  fwarmerdam
 * improve numerical accuracy of SHPRewind() algs (gdal #3363)
 *
 * Revision 1.62  2010-01-17 05:34:13  fwarmerdam
 * Remove asserts on x/y being null (#2148).
 *
 * Revision 1.61  2010-01-16 05:07:42  fwarmerdam
 * allow 0/nulls in shpcreateobject (#2148)
 *
 * Revision 1.60  2009-09-17 20:50:02  bram
 * on Win32, define snprintf as alias to _snprintf

How to deal with that? Which backports should be avoided?

Markus