[geos-devel] RFC7: Discontinue use of autotools

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 1/9/21 3:01 PM, Daniel Baston wrote:
>> buildflags, multiarch, etc. CMake requires more work to make such
>> features work, upstreams seldomly care about those where packagers do.
> 
> Can you quantify "more work"? Is there anything that can be done by GEOS to
> reduce it?

Two examples:


Make the CMake build adhere to CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR so that multiarch
keeps working, see this recent example:

 https://github.com/openstreetmap/OSM-binary/issues/54

A quick look at the CMakeLists.txt for GEOS shows it using hardcoded
paths in its install() calls as well.


Have CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None define NDEBUG so that assert() is removed
from the code, thereby not storing the buildpath in the binaries helping
reproducible builds.


Kind Regards,

Bas

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