[geos-devel] Building GEOS with GDAL

[strk at refractions.net]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:20:57AM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
> On 15-Nov-06, at 9:59 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> >It does still really suck that I have to configure geos on unix  
> >just to
> >get a geos_c.h.vc (which I copied from the geos_c.h produced on unix).
> >
> >Hopefully the rules for producing the packaged source tarballs (as  
> >opposed
> >to pulling from SVN) will produce geos_c.h.vc for distribution?
> 
> If you pull geos-svn.tar.gz, the snapshot source, you'll find that it  
> has been auto-generated.

The ./configure scripts generates from geos_c.h.vc.in, which is
out of sync, unless I'm missing something.

> So, do we drop the whole .vc thing, because it is out of date and  
> unmaintained?  Or do we maintain it up to a level of utility?  Do we  
> revert the .in generation (all it gains us is automatic  
> synchronization with the version information from the top of the tree)?

I suggest we only generate geos_c.h, but also distribute it.
Trying this now..

--strk;