[Mapserver-users] seg fault

[Lowell Filak]

Shapefile type of -1 is only for existing files.
To create a new shapefile MS_SHAPEFILE_POINT, MS_SHAPEFILE_ARC,
MS_SHAPEFILE_POLYGON, or MS_SHAPEFILE_MULTIPOINT needs to be used.
HTH
Lowell

The following message was sent by Nick Petersen-Bergeron
<bergeron at zedxinc.com> on Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:01:26 -0400.

> Can anyone think of any good reason why I would get a seg fault from the 
> following code:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> use mapscript;
> use XBase;
> 
> my $lefloreFile = "/home/httpd/cgi-bin/dm/shapes/leflore_ms";
> 
> my $soilShapeFile = "/home/httpd/cgi-bin/dm/shapes/soiltype";
> my $soilShapeDBF = "/home/httpd/cgi-bin/dm/shapes/soiltype.dbf";
> 
> my $soilShapeFileObj = new
shapefileObj($soilShapeFile,MS_SHAPEFILE_POLYGON);
> 
> my $soilShape_xbase = XBase->create("name" =>
"$soilShapeDBF","field_names" 
> => ["county_name","id"], "field_types" => ["C","N"], "field_lengths" => 
> [32,4],"field_decimals"=>[0,0]) or die print XBase->errstr;
> 
> my $leforeShapeFile = new shapefileObj($lefloreFile,-1);
> print "$SFile\n";
> my $SFile = "/home/httpd/cgi-bin/dm/shapes/S941604";
> my $SShapeFile = new shapefileObj($SFile,-1);
> 
> It seg faults on the last line.
> 
> Nick Petersen-Bergeron
> System Administrator
> 
> ZedX Inc.
> 369 Rolling Ridge Drive
> Bellefonte, PA. 16823
> 
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