[geos-devel] Backporting geosop?

[Martin Davis]

Autotools is still supported for versions <= 3.9.x.

Not being an autotools expert, I was concerned about breaking something.
And since this is an optional tool, it wasn't clear that it would be needed
in packages.  However, I can see that might be desirable.  So maybe
autotools build is needed.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 4:14 PM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

>
> Martin Davis <mtnclimb at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm thinking about committing back-ported versions of geosop to 3.9, 3.8
> > and 3.7.
> >
> > Any objections?  And any further objections if I don't bother with the
> > autotools build setup?
>
> The pkgsrc packge for geos is at at 3.9.1, which I think is current, and
> is using configure.
>
> I really don't follow your question.  Has there been a formal withdrawal
> of the autotools build?  If so, then it follows that it is not supported
> and presumably would be removed.  If not, it seems out of the question
> to commit something that doesn't work right with it.   And, it would
> seem very surprising to withdraw a build system on a stable branch.
>
> Looking, 3.9.1's INSTALL says autotools works.   So committing something
> to the 3.9 branch that breaks that seems not ok.
>
> I feel like I must be missing something.
>
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