[gdal-dev] GDAL 1.5.0 questions

[Roger Bivand]

Hi,

Two questions: first on the size of GDAL 1.5.0 binaries - on both Linux (RHEL4
i386) and Windows (MSYS/MinGW), the GDAL library libgdal.so.1.12.0 and
respectively libgdal-1.dll are four times larger than those built on the same
platforms with the same configure options (Linux 5019970 : 22203698; Windows
5279462 : 17919972). Have I missed a configure option or compile flag?

Second on MSYS/MinGW building GDAL - up to and including 1.4.4, my installation
of MSYS (1.0.10) just worked with ./configure, as suggested on:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingWithMinGW

But 1.5.0 does not build without editing libtool at line 6114 to sed out the
MSYS-anchored absolute path and replace it by a relative path (or possibly a
Windows drive-based absolute path. Once the lnkscript only has relative path
names, make runs to completion, and the resulting binaries, used with the R
bindings in the rgdal package, check through without error.

I'd welcome any suggestions for reducing the size of the libraries, and if
possible a fix to make path names in lnkscript relative (some are, but some are
not).

Thanks for all your hard work, and Happy New Year!

Best wishes,

Roger

PS. The Gmane feed is still pointing at gdal-dev at lists.maptools.org.

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Roger Bivand
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