[gdal-dev] GDAL 1.5.0 questions

[Mateusz Loskot]

Roger Bivand wrote:
> Second on MSYS/MinGW building GDAL - up to and including 1.4.4, my 
> installation of MSYS (1.0.10) just worked with ./configure, as
> suggested on:
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingWithMinGW
> 
> But 1.5.0 does not build without editing libtool at line 6114 to sed
> out the MSYS-anchored absolute path and replace it by a relative path
> (or possibly a Windows drive-based absolute path. Once the lnkscript
> only has relative path names, make runs to completion, and the
> resulting binaries, used with the R bindings in the rgdal package,
> check through without error.
> 
> I'd welcome any suggestions for reducing the size of the libraries,
> and if possible a fix to make path names in lnkscript relative (some
> are, but some are not).

Roger,

I'd add that MinGW users may need to deal with problems and should be
[1] prepared to apply fixes manually.

Also, if you know how to fix this issue, without breaking non-MinGW
configuration, I'd be thankful if you could submit [2] ticket and
attach patch.

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SupportedCompilers#UnsupportedCompilers

[2] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki#BugTracking

Cheers
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Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net