shape driver no longer recognizes INT columns in DBF file?

[Markus Neteler]

Frank,

I have updated the dbf driver in GRASS 6.1-CVS to the 1.2.6
version (dbfopen.c, shpopen.c shapefil.h).

Now I face the problem that the 'cat' (GRASS ID) column is no
longer detected as INT but as FLOAT. Further testing showed that
it seems to be a new bug (?) in OGR:

ogrinfo -al -summary ~/grassdata/pat/neteler/dbf/mygrafo_bclosed.dbf
ERROR 4: Unable to open
/home/neteler/grassdata/pat/neteler/dbf/mygrafo_bclosed.shp or
/home/neteler/grassdata/pat/neteler/dbf/mygrafo_bclosed.SHP.
INFO: Open of `/home/neteler/grassdata/pat/neteler/dbf/mygrafo_bclosed.dbf'
using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.

Layer name: mygrafo_bclosed
Geometry: None
Feature Count: 3
Layer SRS WKT:
(unknown)
cat: Real (11.0)
cat2: Real (11.0)
label: String (80.0)
forward: Real (20.6)
backward: Real (20.6)
length: Real (20.6)

I have an old statically compiled dbfinfo here which reports correctly
dbfinfo ~/grassdata/pat/neteler/dbf/mygrafo_bclosed.dbf
Info for /home/neteler/grassdata/pat/neteler/dbf/mygrafo_bclosed.dbf
6 Columns,  3 Records in file
            cat         integer  (11,0)
           cat2         integer  (11,0)
          label          string  (80,0)
        forward           float  (20,6)
       backward           float  (20,6)
         length           float  (20,6)

I don't know currently how to fix that (go back to GDAL 1.1.x is not
what I want to do).

Hopefully you have a suggestion,

thanks

 Markus