[gdal-dev] make install -- copy "shapefil.h" into the include dir

[Even Rouault]

Joaquim,

I'm not sure this is a good idea. Shapelib and its header file is an internal 
dependency of GDAL/OGR and should probably remain as such. I'd note we made 
recently necessary changes to some utilities (gdaltindex comes to mind) to 
use OGR API and drop their explicit dependency to shapelib.

I'd note that, in some builds of GDAL, shapelib symbols embedded in the 
Shapefile driver could even not be exported (for example if configure is run 
with --with-hide-internal-symbols)

Le Thursday 25 February 2010 17:49:23 Joaquim Luis, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I have a MEX that links against shapelib and works fine. However, I just
> tried to link it against GDAL since it has the same ability to read
> shapefiles in OGR and it also works.
> All I had to do was to copy the "shapefil.h" from
>
> ...\gdal\ogr\ogrsf_frmts\shape
> to
> ...\gdal\include
>
> so can I ask as a kind of enhancement request that the "shapefil.h" be
> moved to the "include" dir by the "make install" procedure so that for
> the next GDAL release I can have my makefiles link that MEX to GDAL only
> and therefore drop the need of having also a shapelib instaled?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joaquim Luis
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