[Gdal-dev] GDAL/GML Xerces Build Problems on Unix

[Frank Warmerdam]

Steve Lime wrote:
> Xerces is in /usr/local. Here's what I get from configure:
> 
> checking for Xerces C++... requested, but compile or link fails!
> 
> g++ -I/usr/local/include/xercesc -DHAVE_JASPER_UUID -o conftest
> conftest.cpp -L/usr/local/lib -lxerces-c -lpthread -ljasper -lgif -ljpeg
> -lpng -lz -lm -ldl
> 
> conftest.cpp: In function `int main ()':
> conftest.cpp:2: `XMLPlatformUtils' undeclared (first use this
> function)
> conftest.cpp:2: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for 
> each function it appears in.)
> conftest.cpp:2: parse error before `::'
> 
> configure: error: Please correct Xerces options, or don't enable
> Xerces.


Steve,

I owe you and a number of other frustrated builders an apology.  It seems
now that the only place I fixed up support for more recent Xerces libraries
was on windows.  The Unix configure script still had a bunch of stuff that
could only work with Xerces 1.6.  Whats worse is I told everyone (like you)
who ran into problems that I had done it, and they must have just not
installed something properly.

Anyways, I have finally stripped all remenants of 1.6 off my system and fixed
the GDAL configure scripts to work more generally.  The actual driver code
was already fine from my having gotten things working on Windows.

Everything is now checked back into CVS and should be in tomorrows snapshot.

Once again sorry for everyone who has been pulling out their hair.

Best regards,
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