[Gdal-dev] GDAL changes affecting GRASS?

[William Kyngesburye]

I can hack configure, but I've never messed around with the autotools  
stuff (configure.in I guess).

It _looks_ like, to me, in configure.in, it should be something like  
this: remove -L$with_geotiff/lib from AC_CHECK_LIB on line 553 (the  
check for geotiff in default locations) and add it to AC_CHECK_LIB on  
line 575.

Another oddity: after it finds the user-specified geotiff, it does an  
additional check for libgeotiff.a in the same location and without  
the /lib added to it.  But without the /lib should never succeed,  
should it, since it already found it in /lib?

   if test -r $with_geotiff/libgeotiff.a ; then
     LIBS="-L$with_geotiff -lgeotiff $LIBS"
     EXTRA_INCLUDES="-I$with_geotiff $EXTRA_INCLUDES"
   else
     LIBS="-L$with_geotiff/lib -lgeotiff $LIBS"
     EXTRA_INCLUDES="-I$with_geotiff/include $EXTRA_INCLUDES"
   fi

should be simply:

   LIBS="-L$with_geotiff/lib -lgeotiff $LIBS"
   EXTRA_INCLUDES="-I$with_geotiff/include $EXTRA_INCLUDES"

?


On Nov 30, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> On 11/30/05, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
>> Looking at the configure logic for geotiff, it seems to be
>> backwards.  What I see (generalized, ignoring the internal tests):
>>
>> if with=yes [which means look for geotiff in default locations]
>>    test for geotiff using the 'with' value for -L + current LIBS
>>    (LIBS="-lgeotiff -L$with_geotiff/lib $LIBS)
>> else [look for it in user pecified location]
>>    test for goetiff using default locations + current LIBS
>>    (LIBS="-lgeotiff $LIBS)
>
> William,
>
> I believe you are correct.  Can you turn this into a
> proposed patch to fix the problem?
>

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