[Gdal-dev] 1.4.3 build and NG bindings

[Brian Hamlin]

Hi All-

   I am still getting used to the details of GDAL/OGR. I found the 
output of the configure script to be a little confusing regarding NG, 
or Next Gen bindings and building. Howard Butler clarified it pretty 
well, so I am repeating that here. I hope this helps others with this 
build.

   NG Bindings, or Next Gen, means SWIG. So if you are using a SWIG 
binding in any language, that is NG.   -  Originally there was python 
only, in a directory called pymod, and that alone is not NG. With 1.4.3 
you can still specifiy the pymod python interface.

   --with-python  => pymod interfaces
   --without-python  --with-ngpython  =>  SWIG python, these are the 
preferred interfaces in the future

   On the Macintosh, I have a new Framework python installed, version 
2.5.x. Configure will not find that. You can tell configure to put your 
python support files in the framework python on the Mac. It seems to be 
this

   --with-pymoddir=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/

  hth
   -Brian