[Mapserver-users] MS 3.7 and RH 8 woes

[Lowell Filak]

If you currently have something like:
my $shape = new shapeObj(-1);
try replacing it with:
my $shape = new mapscript::shapeObj(-1);
HTH
Lowell F.

The following message was sent by Gerry Creager N5JXS <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> on Wed, 05 Mar 2003 07:47:40 -0600.

> Sorry for the newbie questions:  I should have kept up with the 
> technology myself instead of letting a graduating grad student get ahead 
> of me!
> 
> I've got the nightly build from Sunday evening compiled, sans errors, 
> and installed per Steve Woodbridge's Wiki entry.  That part seemed to go 
> great.  Excellent step-by-step directions, no problems.  I took no 
> shortcuts there to get anyting going.
> 
> However, perl mapscript is DOA. I'd tried a CVS load that didn't even 
> come close to allowing me to compile perl-mapsecript, thus the nightly 
> download, which at least allowed compilation.  So that's working.
> 
> Now, however, when I attempt to run a perl script that calls 
> perl-mapscript, I get the following:
> ------------------
> [root at vne-dhcp-047 mesonet]# ./makeshapefile.pl
> Name "mapscript::MS_SHAPEFILE_POLYGON" used only once: possible typo at 
> ./makeshapefile.pl line 22.
> Name "mapscript::MS_SHAPE_LINE" used only once: possible typo at 
> ./makeshapefile.pl line 175.
> Can't locate object method "new" via package "shapefileObj" (perhaps you 
> forgot to load "shapefileObj"?) at ./makeshapefile.pl line 22.
> [root at vne-dhcp-047 mesonet]#
> ------------------
> 
> makeshapefile.pl worked on 3.6.3 on a RH7.3 install with perl v5.8.0. 
> I've gotten XBase and DBD loaded, and mapscript installed in the 
> appropriate place.
> 
> If it helps, here's the output of mapserv -v:
> 
> [root at vne-dhcp-047 mesonet]# /var/www/cgi-bin/mapserv -v
> MapServer version 3.7 (development) OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP 
> OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SWF SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=TTF SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER 
> SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=GD2_RGB INPUT=OGR 
> INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
> [root at vne-dhcp-047 mesonet]#
> 
> Any advice greatly appreciated!
> Gerry
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