[postgis-users] shp2pgsql problems on Mac OS X Leopard

[William Kyngesburye]

The problem I found which was fixed in 1.3.2, is that a function  
defined in postgis (get_uint32) was *added* to Leopard's libSystem,  
and Leopard's was linked instead of postgis's.

The getopt problem is similar, but at least in my build I see that the  
postgis version of getopt is linked into the binary.

You can check by doing this in a Terminal:

nm -mjg /usr/local/pgsql/bin/shp2pgsql | grep getopt

if the _getopt line ends with "(from libSystem)" then somehow the  
system getopt got linked in.

On Dec 6, 2007, at 12:05 PM, David Fawcett wrote:

> I have used his latest Mac binaries to load a dozen shapefiles or so  
> and they have loaded fine.
>
> I had some issues with one version back, apparently due to a problem  
> between Posgres and PostGIS.  Once the source was updated, he rolled  
> a new one.
>
> David.
>
> On Dec 6, 2007 10:02 AM, John Cartwright <john.c.cartwright at comcast.net 
> > wrote:
> It seemed to me that William Kyngesburye's (http://www.kyngchaos.com/)
> version worked OK, but I don't know what his compilation options were.
>
> -- john
>
> Patrick Hartling wrote:
> > Yes, that is what was happening for me. Without looking at the  
> code, I
> > had narrowed it down to some sort of argument processing problem. On
> > my way in to the office this morning, I started wondering if it  
> might
> > not be better to use the system-provided getopt(3) for the Mac OS X
> > case. I could not tell if that was the intention, but I will look  
> into
> > that as soon as I can. If I come up with something other than this
> > #include removal hack, I will post a patch.
> >
> >  -Patrick
> >
> > On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:35 PM, John Cartwright wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Patrick,
> >>
> >> I think I ran into the same problem, but didn't realize what the
> >> underlying issue was.  Just found that shp2pgsql kept complaining
> >> about the inability to open valid shapefiles.
> >>
> >> --john
> >>
> >>
> >> On Dec 5, 2007, at 9:32 AM, Patrick Hartling wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have run into a rather perplexing problem with shp2pgsql from
> >>> PostGIS 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 on Mac OS X Leopard. As far as I can tell,
> >>> the optarg and optind variables declared in ParseCmdline() of
> >>> loader/shp2pgsql.c are being linked to the globals declared in
> >>> unistd.h rather than those in loader/getopt.h. The result is that
> >>> references to these variables in ParseCmdline() give the wrong
> >>> values. Specifically, optarg is always NULL, and optind is 0 until
> >>> the loop in lines 1363 through 1377.
> >>>
> >>> Looking at the output from the preprocessor, optarg, optind,  
> opterr,
> >>> and optopt are all  declared twice. The first is from unistd.h,  
> and
> >>> the second is from PostGIS' loader/getopt.h. If I remove the
> >>> #include directive for unistd.h, shp2pgsql compiles, links, and  
> runs
> >>> correctly, although there is a compiler warning saying that  
> getopt()
> >>> is not declared.
> >>>
> >>> My guess is that there is some compiler or linker option that  
> might
> >>> fix this behavior, but I have not been able to determine what that
> >>> might be. Removing the inclusion of unistd.h does not seem like  
> the
> >>> best fix, but it is a workaround that gets things running for me.
> >>>
> >>> -Patrick
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Patrick L. Hartling
> >>> Senior Software Engineer, Priority 5
> >>> http://www.priority5.com/
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