[gdal-dev] make install -- copy "shapefil.h" into the include dir
Frank Warmerdam
warmerdam at pobox.com
Fri Feb 26 12:15:57 EST 2010
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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