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shapelib - C library for reading, writing, and updating ESRI Shapefiles ChangeLog

Web site:	http://shapelib.maptools.org/
Repository:	https://github.com/OSGeo/shapelib

HOWTO

# Shapefile C Library (shapelib)
# ===================
# GitHub tag v1.5.0

# Prerequisites:
# autoconf
# automake
# libtool

# Get the source
cd
test -f installed/shapelib-1.5.0.tar.gz &&
mv -f installed/shapelib-1.5.0.tar.gz .
test ! -f shapelib-1.5.0.tar.gz &&
wget -O shapelib-1.5.0.tar.gz \
https://github.com/OSGeo/shapelib/archive/refs/tags/v1.5.0.tar.gz

# Extract the source
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/src
cd ~/src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "shapelib-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/shapelib-1.5.0.tar.gz
cd shapelib-1.5.0
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# Read README and ChangeLog (if upgrading)

# Configure the build for 64-bit
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --libdir=/usr/local/lib64

# Configure the build for anything else
./configure

# Build it
make

# Check the build
make check

# Become root to install it
su

# Install it
make install
ldconfig

# Become your non-root user again
exit

# Save the source for later
cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/shapelib-*.tar.*
mv shapelib-1.5.0.tar.gz installed/

# If you ever want to uninstall Shapelib, this should do it:
cd
su
test -d src/shapelib-* && ( cd src/shapelib-* ; make uninstall )
( cd /usr/local/bin
  rm -f Shape_PointInPoly dbfadd dbfcat dbfcreate dbfdump dbfinfo shpadd \
   shpcat shpcentrd shpcreate shpdata shpdump shpdxf shpfix shpinfo \
   shprewind shpsort shptreedump shputils shpwkb )
rm /usr/local/include/shapefil.h \
/usr/local/lib64/libshp.* /usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig/libshp.pc
ldconfig
exit
find ~/src -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "shapelib-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
rm -f ~/installed/shapelib-*.tar.*