Buidling DBMS support for Grass and GDAL

[leo.lami]

The dbf driver doesn't work if I work with GRASS vector. This a collect of mail on the arguments:

I can confirm the dbf problem in QGIS/GRASS. I am running QGIS 0.9.0 26.10.2007 build. My OS is Vista but I don't think it matters. I am also running WINGRASS 6.3RC3 and I got the same problem so something is broken in winGRASS now. See the error messages for more info. The messages are from the CLI from within QGIS

$ db.connect -p driver:dbf database:$GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf/ schema: group:

The connection set up looks fine to me, but if you try getting info in a specific layer:

$ v.db.connect map=dist2_net3 -c Invalid argument: can't _spawnl

GRASS_INFO_ERROR(260,1): Unable to start driver <dbf> GRASS_INFO_END(260,1)

If I try db.describe from winGRASS I get this:

db.describe -c table=dist2_net3 driver=dbf

{database=$GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf/}

invalid argument: can't _spawnl

Unable to start driver <dbf>

Benjamin wrote: There are many little annoyances with the GDAL linking. But they can all be rectified (at least I managed for version 1.4.4, don't know about 1.5 yet).

I think I left out that final bit in my last email.

Here it is. For 1.5, you will probably need to update the last bit somewhat, since I think all user tools are now in the "apps" subfolder.

Let me know how it's working for you.

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Milestone Version 0.9.1 deleted