[GRASSLIST:9416] Re: Reading and converting VMAP0

[William Kyngesburye]

On Dec 10, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Hamish wrote:

>
>>>> Nothing I've tried seems to work. Has anybody had success with
>>>> this? Is it possible that there is something wrong with the
>>>> binaries? ogrinfo works fine with shapefiles, but doesn't seem to
>>>> like VPFs.
>
> Ok on linux, haven't tried on a mac. OGDI lib missing? you might need
> to ask on the GDAL mailing list.
>
> $ locate libvrf
>
It's there in Lorenzo's distribution - /usr/local/grasslib/lib.  A  
non-standard location, but I would have thought that setting  
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH would have done it, yet it didn't.

Looking back at the details of the hack I put in my distribution, I  
see that the standard OGDI makes 2 attempts to locate the vrf library  
(or whatever other gltp library) - first as specified, then as 'lib'  
+ [libname] + '.so'.  Both times use dlopen, which should use  
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Nick - I wonder, did you try both setting  
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH = /usr/local/grasslib/lib AND gltp:/ 
libvrf.dylib/... together? (just to make sure, it wasn't clear in  
your offlist reply that you did them together)

% setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/grasslib/lib
% ./ogrinfo -ro -summary gltp:/libvrf.dylib/Users/nick/v0eur/vmaplv0/ 
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