[mapserver-users] Shell-script to compile MapServer in a user directory tree

[Ivan Mincik]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Jan Hartmann <j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The last few months I have been working in a Cloud environment with lots of
> virtual machines, all with MapServer, PostGIS and PL/R. I couldn't work with
> binaries, since different sites needed different configurations. It's not
> difficult to compile MapServer once you have done it a few times, but it
> becomes boring if you need to do it dozens of times. So I made a
> shell-script that on the one hand compiles the whole MapServer-PostGIS-PLR
> suite with one command, but leaves the possibility to adapt every
> configuration parameter. Everything is done at the user level: no super user
> rights are needed, no system files are changed, and the whole installation
> takes place within a single directory tree. Multiple installations can
> coexist on the same computer.  You can find it, together with instructions,
> at:
>
> http://mapserver.sara.nl/Install
>
> I tried out four different configurations on dozens of virtual machines,
> installed from standard distribution DVD's: Debian, Fedora, Suse and the
> OSGEO Live CD (Xubuntu) , so I'm reasonably sure it works on fresh, modern
> installation. Older and much-used systems could give trouble, although I
> don't expect many problems there either. Let me know if this is useful for
> you and how it could be  ameliorated.

Jan, thanks for sharing this nice idea.

Ivan