[gdal-dev] report proj4 version to which gdal is linked?

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, Even Rouault wrote:

> On vendredi 24 novembre 2017 22:19:08 CET Roger Bivand wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, Even Rouault wrote:
>>>> I would have (perhaps) hoped that
>>>> pj_release.c is the runtime version, but mileage may
>>>
>>> vary ...
>>>
>>> It is. I just missed pj_get_release()
>>
>> Thanks, I guess you can see a resoluion. Which gdal header is the most
>> logical to expose this in?
>
> Would probably makes sense to add the version found at build time in
> GDALVersionInfo("BUILD_INFO") in
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/trunk/gdal/gcore/gdal_misc.cpp#L2099
>
> PROJ_VERSION=x.y.z\n
>
> and have a similar GDALVersionInfo("RUNTIME_INFO") for the version found at runtime
> (pj_get_release() / proj_info())
>
> PROJ_VERSION=x.y.z\n
>

Thanks, that would match nicely, as rgdal already has bindings for 
GDALVersionInfo() but only uses "--version" and "VERSION_NUM" so far; our 
test for GDAL built with GEOS tests a fake union to detect success or 
failure.

Roger

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