[fdo-trac] #5: GDAL: Update FDO Thirdparty to latest GDAL Source

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#5: GDAL: Update FDO Thirdparty to latest GDAL Source
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 Reporter:  gregboone              |         Owner:  gregboone
     Type:  enhancement            |        Status:  closed   
 Priority:  minor                  |     Milestone:  3.3.0    
Component:  Thirdparty Components  |       Version:  3.3.0    
 Severity:  2                      |    Resolution:  fixed    
 Keywords:  GDAL WMS               |   External_id:           
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Comment (by anonymous):

 Greg,

 I have updated to the latest fdo repository contents, and was somewhat
 surprised to discover that now when I run build_thirdparty.sh the scripts
 attempt to build and install GDAL into /usr/local.

 This seems somewhat dangerous as it is likely to overwrite an existing
 GDAL installation.

 I am wondering if there ought to be two variables.  One controlling
 whether
 the Thirdparty copy of GDAL will be built and installed, and one
 controlling
 which copy of GDAL gets used when building fdogdal, the WMS provider and
 so
 forth.

 In this case the default might be for setenvironment.sh to try and find a
 gdal-config and if found use the existing GDAL install it describes.  If
 not
 found, we could build the third party components, and install them in the
 /usr/fdo-3.3.0 tree.

 I think this could be a model for some other dependencies as well, such as
 xerces,
 and xalan.

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