[geos-devel] GEOS libraries

[Paul Ramsey]

Ferdinando,
Hold off for a day or so. Norman Vine dropped a tarball in my email box 
this morning which purports to have the autoconf stuff done. I need to 
check that it works, but the dragon may already be slain.
Thanks,
Paul

Ferdinando Villa wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>	I'm adding autoconf/automake support to geos. I have a quick question
>about the library structure. The most natural source tree configuration
>for automake is one library per directory - based on this I would
>produce three libraries, libgsgeo (from source in source/geom), libgsgrp
>(source/graph) and libgsio (source/io). I assume the code in
>subdirectories of these (source/io/markup, source/graph/index) would
>link into the corresponding upper-level library. Everyone ok with this
>(names and arrangements)? 
>
>Other configurations are possible, this is just the most natural given
>the current tree structure. In all cases I'll produce a glib-config
>script, so linking will just be a matter of adding `geos-config --libs`
>to the command line and we won't need to remember the lib names.
>
>Also, is the code in util/ needed into any of the libs? If so, which
>one? I'm planning to add that and the test code as EXTRA_DIST so that it
>goes in the tar archives when you 'make dist' but doesn't get compiled
>by 'make all'. Let me know if that's ok.
>
>More random questions:
>
>Yury - do you want me to fix the trivial quirks about the code (like the
>need for including stdio.h for sprintf)? 
>
>Also: should I keep notes about what files to add (there will be a
>plethora of files to add to cvs) or will you give me cvs write access? 
>
>Last one: automake by default will add gnu-compliant files to the root
>dir, including LICENSE (the GPL). Is geos GPL'd? If not, just remember
>to change the license file when we commit it - we can leave it out but
>any run of automake with standard parameters will add it, so it's better
>to have one in the first place.
>
>ciao,
>ferdinando
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