[postgis-users] Update to current shapelib

[Peter Hopfgartner]

--------Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote--------
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Update to current shapelib
Date: 04.08.2010 11:40

>Peter Hopfgartner wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> 
>> I tried to upgrade the shapelib version in PostGIS to the current one,
>as found in the current shapelib CVS repository.
>> 
>> What I did was:
>>  * copy safileio.c shapefil.h shpopen.c dbfopen.c from shapelib
>>  * add support for dates and include the functions DBFReadSetup and
>DBFReadDeleted from the current PostGIS shapelib version.
>>  * adapt Makefile.in
>> 
>> This was done with 1.5, adapting this to trunk should be easy.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Peter
>
>Hi Peter,
>
>Thanks for this. Was this for a particular bug that you needed to work 
>around? Please feel free to create a ticket in the bugtracker and attach 
>a patch in diff -u format against SVN trunk.
>
>
>ATB,
>
>Mark.
>

Hi Mark,

We are currently doing some analysis on some issues we have with shape import and export in our applications. One of the problems we have is related to code pages, which was fixed in the official shapelib.

I've created http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/554 .

Regards,

Peter