[geos-devel] 3.12.0beta1

[Paul Ramsey]

> On Jun 7, 2023, at 5:26 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
> 
> If I install the 3.12.0beta1 package, then the tests pass.  So there is
> a bug, but it is that the tests appaprently refer to installed files,
> rather than being controlled to use only files in the build tree.  

We had this out last release, it’s specific to a particular OS. Happy to look over a cmake patch.

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geos-devel/2022-June/010723.html


> This
> requires alternate rpath processing, etc., and in the autoconf world is
> usually handled by libtool relinking at install time.
> 
> Therefore, I have no reason to think 3.12.0beta1 is more troubled than
> any previous release -- this is likely not a regression.
> 
> My only question then about 3.12.0beta1 is if the comings-and-goings
> diff of .h files is what the authors intend.

Probably! I’ll look at that diff.

P

> 
> I am kicking off a process to rebuild everything that depends on geos
> (that I have installed, but that extends all the way to postis and
> qgis).
>