I have used his latest Mac binaries to load a dozen shapefiles or so and they have loaded fine. <br><br>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.
<br><br>David.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 6, 2007 10:02 AM, John Cartwright <<a href="mailto:john.c.cartwright@comcast.net">john.c.cartwright@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It seemed to me that William Kyngesburye's (<a href="http://www.kyngchaos.com/" target="_blank">http://www.kyngchaos.com/</a>)<br>version worked OK, but I don't know what his compilation options were.<br><font color="#888888">
<br>-- john<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>Patrick Hartling wrote:<br>> Yes, that is what was happening for me. Without looking at the code, I<br>> had narrowed it down to some sort of argument processing problem. On
<br>> my way in to the office this morning, I started wondering if it might<br>> not be better to use the system-provided getopt(3) for the Mac OS X<br>> case. I could not tell if that was the intention, but I will look into
<br>> that as soon as I can. If I come up with something other than this<br>> #include removal hack, I will post a patch.<br>><br>> -Patrick<br>><br>> On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:35 PM, John Cartwright wrote:
<br>><br>>> Hi Patrick,<br>>><br>>> I think I ran into the same problem, but didn't realize what the<br>>> underlying issue was. Just found that shp2pgsql kept complaining<br>>> about the inability to open valid shapefiles.
<br>>><br>>> --john<br>>><br>>><br>>> On Dec 5, 2007, at 9:32 AM, Patrick Hartling wrote:<br>>><br>>>> I have run into a rather perplexing problem with shp2pgsql from<br>>>> PostGIS
1.3.1 and 1.3.2 on Mac OS X Leopard. As far as I can tell,<br>>>> the optarg and optind variables declared in ParseCmdline() of<br>>>> loader/shp2pgsql.c are being linked to the globals declared in<br>>>>
unistd.h rather than those in loader/getopt.h. The result is that<br>>>> references to these variables in ParseCmdline() give the wrong<br>>>> values. Specifically, optarg is always NULL, and optind is 0 until
<br>>>> the loop in lines 1363 through 1377.<br>>>><br>>>> Looking at the output from the preprocessor, optarg, optind, opterr,<br>>>> and optopt are all declared twice. The first is from
unistd.h, and<br>>>> the second is from PostGIS' loader/getopt.h. If I remove the<br>>>> #include directive for unistd.h, shp2pgsql compiles, links, and runs<br>>>> correctly, although there is a compiler warning saying that getopt()
<br>>>> is not declared.<br>>>><br>>>> My guess is that there is some compiler or linker option that might<br>>>> fix this behavior, but I have not been able to determine what that<br>>>> might be. Removing the inclusion of
unistd.h does not seem like the<br>>>> best fix, but it is a workaround that gets things running for me.<br>>>><br>>>> -Patrick<br>>>><br>>>><br>>>> --<br>>>> Patrick L. Hartling
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