[geos-devel] Building GEOS with GDAL

[Frank Warmerdam]

strk at refractions.net wrote:
> 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 So, do we drop the whole .vc thing, because it is out of date and  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,

Dropping the geos_c.h.vc entirely would be fine if distributed source
files include geos_c.h, but then we will need to remove the rule for
copying geos_c.h.vc to geos_c.h from the source/Makefile.vc.

I'd be wiling to try a fixed up source distribution if you guys like.

Best regards,
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