[gdal-dev] gdal / ESRI SDE / mapserver

[Russell McOrmond]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Howard Butler wrote:

> I think the way forward is if you could document this misery on the wiki 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal It's a hard sell for us to complicate our already 
> messy configure logic to work around their bug that they stubbornly won't 
> fix.

  It looks like someone (possibly you) already has part of the fix there, 
which is changing the order of the linking.

   The most recent issue is similar as it relates to the order of the 
include path.  I suspect it wouldn't harm anyone to have the internal gdal 
.h files included before any third party includes. That way the logic that 
switches to the internal zlib will always work, regardless of any other 
zlib related .h files which may be installed in other include directories.

   My guess is the current include path order will cause other people 
problems who have multiple versions of zlib .h files, even those who 
aren't dealing with the libsde bug.

   I will take your advise and add some documentation.  In my case this is 
all stuff my customer wants to work, but that they may not want me 
spending their time to document it for others.  Will verify, but will be 
willing to document off-hours otherwise.


   I'm told I should have the 9.3 SDE SDK soon, so will be able to report 
on that.

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