[Qgis-developer] Patch for compiling qgis-0.8pre2 with geos-3.0.0rc3

[Mike Leahy]

Mike Leahy wrote:
> Ok,
> 
> For some reason, adding /usr/lib64/qt4/bin to the path didn't do the 
> trick...I actually had to add a links to qmake and lrelease /usr/bin as 
> Gavin suggested.  It just seems strange that prerelase 2 had no problems 
> for me like this, but now the current version does...
> 
> FWIW, I've attached a patch for the current unstable source with the 
> extra changes I needed to get it to work with GEOS 3.x.  This took a 
> couple more changes to get working.  I had to include references to 
> TopologyException.h in qgsgeometry.cpp and qgsogrprovider.cpp, and make 
> a couple changes to the catch statements that used the TopologyException 
> class.
> 
> Also, it seems I still needed to add a symbolic link to the new geos 
> library for it to compile like so:
> 
> ln -s /usr/lib64/libgeos-3.0.0rc3.so /usr/lib64/libgeos.so.2
> 
Actually, I think this was just because I still had some of the 
dependencies built against geos 2.x...so I ignore that last point.

> Anyway, I hope somebody finds this useful.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
>