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

[Frank Warmerdam]

Even Rouault wrote:
> 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)

Joaquim,

I concur with Even.  It is not the practice of the project to install the
include files of sublibraries like shapelib (dgnlib, tiff, geotiff, etc)
and it isn't something I want to start.

Best regards,
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