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

[Joaquim Luis]

Even,

Thanks for the feedback. I think I understand what you mean but on the 
other hand I got puzzled as well.
Glad that my memory is not too rotten with age as I remember one of your 
mails that ended up as ticket #1810
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1810
where you explained that (and this is my interpretation of it), on 
Windows the  "--with-hide-internal-symbols" behavior is the default one.
But I'm testing on Windows and it worked fine with the link to 
"gdal_i.lib". If it works here, why should it fail on *nix?

Joaquim

> 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 :
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>> Hi,
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>> 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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