[GRASS-dev] GRASS 7 configure fails on Mac

[Michael Barton]

On Mar 30, 2009, at 7:27 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> Finally got some time to actually try it.  Error in python vdigit -  
> it's looking for geos_c.h, from Vect.h.
>
> For the linking, it works on OSX as is, but only because I include  
> both C++ and C APIs (libgeos and libgeos_c) in the same binary in  
> the GEOS framework.  On other platforms, libgeos_c is probably  
> necessary.
>
> On Mar 30, 2009, at 5:24 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>
>> On Mar 30, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Martin Landa wrote:
>>
>>>> Is GEOS support really using the C++ API?  geos-config --libs  
>>>> only returns
>>>> the C++ linking info.
>>>
>>> No, C API.
>>
>> Then add -lgeos_c the GEOS_LIBS?  Though you might want an extra  
>> check to verify libgeos_c exists.
>>
>> Maybe this is where Michael is having problems.
>>
>>>> Searching the rest of the source, I don't see GEOS used, yet, so  
>>>> there
>>>> should be no problems compiling --without-geos.  Is this yet to  
>>>> come?
>>>
>>> lib/vector/Vlib/geos.c
>>> vector/v.select/geos.c
>>
>> Strange, my text search for GEOSLIBS and GEOSCLFAGS didn't turn up  
>> anything (except in configure where I looked with my eyes), yet I  
>> see them in platform.make.in, grass.make and vlib/makefile.  Must  
>> have had a filter on.
>>
>> -----
>> William Kyngesb


So you're saying that vdigit doesn't work again because of the geos  
problem?

Michael