[gdal-dev] Problems building 1.6.0 with Xerces 2.7 on Solaris 10 / Sparc (1.5.x work)

[Peter J Halls]

Dear All,

    I'm sure that I've done something wrong, but cannot see it!  I've pulled 
GDAL 1.6.0 and ran the same configure command as for 1.5.x, seeking to include 
xerces  (for GML).  Configure failed to find the xerces libraries with both gcc 
3.3 and the Sun compilers; I also had to drop Jasper, as I do not currently have 
this.  I got round the xerces problem for the Sun compilers (but get a new set 
of errors from gcc) by editing configure to add a reference to the XMLUni header 
file, as follows:

#include <xercesc/util/XercesDefs.hpp>
#include <xercesc/util/XMLUni.hpp>
#include <xercesc/util/PlatformUtils.hpp>

However, GDAL then fails to build, with multiple link errors of the same form as 
originally generated by configure:

Undefined                       first referenced
  symbol                             in file
int xercesc_2_7::XMLString::compareString(const unsigned short*const,const 
unsigned short*const) /usr/postel/gdal-1.6.0/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/o/.libs/iom_basket.o
unsigned short*xercesc_2_7::XMLString::replicate(const unsigned short*const) 
/usr/postel/gdal-1.6.0/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/o/.libs/iom_basket.o
xercesc_2_7::XMLFormatter&xercesc_2_7::XMLFormatter::operator<<(const unsigned 
short*const) /usr/postel/gdal-1.6.0/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/o/.libs/writer.o
void xercesc_2_7::XMLString::catString(unsigned short*const,const unsigned 
short*const) /usr/postel/gdal-1.6.0/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/o/.libs/writer.o
xercesc_2_7::LocalFileFormatTarget::LocalFileFormatTarget(const 
char*const,xercesc_2_7::MemoryManager*const) 
/usr/postel/gdal-1.6.0/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/o/.libs/writer.o

Checking the sources, the header file requests appear to be in order, so it 
would appear that I have some other problem that is masked by my edit to configure.

My current configure statement is

./configure 'CC=cc' 'CCC=CC' 
'--with-oci-include=/usr/appl/oracle/solaris/solaris32/instantclient10_1/sdk/include' 
'--with-oci-lib=/usr/appl/oracle/solaris/solaris32/instantclient10_1/lib' 
'--prefix=/usr/appl/bin/solaris/sparc' '--with-pcraster=internal' 
'--with-png=internal' '--with-libtiff=internal' '--with-geotiff=internal' 
'--with-jpeg=internal' '--with-xerces' 
'--with-xerces-inc=/usr/appl/bin/solaris/sparc/include/' 
'--with-xerces-lib=/usr/appl/bin/solaris/sparc/lib/libxerces-c.so.27' 
'--without-python' '--without-jasper'

Note that I have had to specify the libxerces-c.so.27, rather than just 
libxerces-c.so as I did at GDAL 1.5.x - they are the same version.

I can provide compilation logs, etc., should these be needed to identify where 
I've gone wrong.

Thanks and best wishes,

Peter

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Peter J Halls, GIS Advisor, University of York
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