[Mapserver-users] Problems with new mapserver install

[Dylan Keon]

On 12/31/2003 06:21 PM mapserver at digger.net wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:08:22 -0800
> Tyler Mitchell <TMitchell at lignum.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>./mapserv -v
>>
>>should list all the capabilities.
> 
> 
> A-hah!  That reports:
> MapServer version 4.0.1 SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER INPUT=TIFF
> INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=JPEG INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
> 
> I see some things missing that probably ought to be there.  Like GIF and
> PNG.  Since I did tell configure where to find those, and it reported
> finding them.
> 
> Thinking back, it occurs to me that I had to manually put "-pthread" into
> CFLAGS in the Makefile before it would compile.  (I'm sure there must be a
> configure option to solve the problem, but I don't know what it is.)  So
> on a whim, I decided to put "-pthread" into CFLAGS in configure and try
> compiling it again, to see if maybe it got configured wrong.  Success!
> 
> Now mapserv -v reports:
> MapServer version 4.0.1 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP SUPPORTS=PROJ
> SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER INPUT=TIFF INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=JPEG
> INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
> 
> That looks MUCH better!  Better yet, now the Workshop demo appears to work
> perfectly!  The Itasca demo still has issues, but it appears that
> converting GIF to PNG will solve that.  So I think I'm up and running!

I would still use absolute paths for the SYMBOLs.  I tried relative 
paths vs. absolute paths in my copy of the Itasca demo this evening, and 
with relative paths I got the exact error you originally reported.

Also, you might want to recompile MapServer --without-tiff if you want 
to use --with-gdal.  If you're using GDAL it's best to use GDAL's 
internal TIFF support, rather than MapServer's.

--Dylan