[geos-devel] Building geos with gcc 4.1

[Shawn McCann]

As a heads up, I've added geos to Fedora Extras but ran into a problem 
getting it to compile on FC5. FC5 uses gcc 4.1 instead of gcc 4.0 and 
encounters errors with geom.h

./../source/headers/geos/geom.h:361: error: extra qualification 
'geos::Coordinate::' on member 'setNull'
../../source/headers/geos/geom.h:367: error: extra qualification 
'geos::Coordinate::' on member 'getNull'
../../source/headers/geos/geom.h:371: error: extra qualification 
'geos::Coordinate::' on member 'Coordinate'

Apparently GCC-4.1 dislikes constructs like this:

class MyClass {
int MyClass::method(...);
}

and wants this instead

class MyClass {
int method(...);
}

We created a patch to remove the Coordinate:: tags from geom.h and all works 
well now.

Shawn