[geos-devel] 3.10.0rc1 (static)

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2021-10-15 4:33 p.m., Regina Obe wrote:
>>
>> Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> writes:
>>
>>> OK, this is coming directly out of
>>> https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/1103
>>>
>>> If I go back to using an "OBJECT" library in building ryu, then it
>>> gets bundled right up into libgeos.a where we want it, and your link
>>> line is nice and simple again. That implies a minimum cmake of 3.13,
>>> whcih is 3+ years old now. My macports gives me 3.21 by default. I
>>> dunno, we backed out of the OBJECT library to STATIC to keep the cmake
>>> requirement low, but that implies generating two static libs and
>>> sticking them both on the link line.
>>>
>>> I'm inclined to bias towards a newer cmake and still generating one
> static
>> library.
>>
>> I'm usually in the camp of not wanting to have aggressive dependency
>> requirements, so having a look and opining.
>>
>> pkgsrc has 3.21.2 now (and it looks like 3.21.3 just came out).
>>
>> 3.13.0 was released on 2018-11-20.  That's almost 5 years ago, and I
> therefore
>> think it's entirely reasonable to require it if it makes anything even a
> little bit
>> better.
> [Regina Obe]
> FWIW I'm fine with upping the requirement too.  I'm running with cmake 3.18
> at moment but since I just download it from cmake website, I can easily
> upgrade too if needed.
> 

I'm fine also with newer cmake requirement (running 3.21.2 here for MS4W 
build environment).

-jeff



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