[geos-devel] 3.10.0beta2

[Paul Ramsey]

> On Oct 6, 2021, at 4:21 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
> 
> Do you mean that if you
> 
>  have geos 3.9 installed in the system, in some prefix
> 
>  you build 3.10 with that same prefix -- as if you are building an
>  updated package
> 
>  you run the tests in the 3.10 dir, before you have installed the
>  newpackage
> 
> that the tests find the 3.10 not-installed libs and do not find the
> installed version?

Yes, that's 100% what I mean, and my dev environment would be well-nigh unusable were that not the case. My unit tests in my working dir link to the libraries in the same dir, so I can test my changes, without picking up my old system installed versions.

P.

> 
> Are you or someone else able to try this on Linux or FreeBSD?
> 
> I wonder if anyone knows if there is a mechanism that intends to allow
> this to work, as I don't see how it would with specific effort.
> 
> I will test with pkgsrc on Mac (prefix /opt/pkg).