Questions re. 5.0.0-beta1

[Mike Leahy]

Ok, tickets #2184 and #2185 are created.  I should correct what I said below
about the configure options - they don't cause 'make' to fail (this actually
does appear to complete ok), but rather they prevent the dll from working
during runtime (either during make test, or with other applications).

Regards,
Mike

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:13:11 +0200, Tamas Szekeres <szekerest at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Mike,
>
>IIRC the issue with the 64 bit platform have already been maifested in
>this list, but it seems I've neglected that a bit or I haven't managed
>to set up a proper environment to reproduce the problem.
>
>You should create a separate ticket on each problem and attach the
>error message you get during the make.  Then I'll take care of the
>problems ASAP.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Tamas
>
>
>
>2007/7/27, Mike Leahy <mgleahy at golden.net>:
>> Hello List,
>>
>> I gave beta1 a try just now on F7-64bit, and FC6-32bit.  Everything
>> looks good as far as I can tell, though I have one quick question, plus
>> a couple build issues with the csharp mapscript library to ask about.
>> First...I recall class/style-level transparency was on the todo list for
>> 5.0 - did this make it in?  If so, is there any documentation I can find
>> about it?
>>
>> Regarding the csharp library, I was able to successfully compile this on
>> both 64 and 32 bit (though it took me a while to realize it now uses
>> 'OSGeo.MapServer' as a namespace).  However, I've found that including
>> either '--enable-coverage' or '--with-fastcgi=/usr' in the MapServer
>> configure options will cause make to fail when building the csharp
>> library (this was already the case with the fastcgi option in 4.x...but
>> I think the coverage option is new).  Also, after mapscript_csharp is
>> successfully compiled (after configuring without the above two options),
>> I find that 'make test' fails when run on my 64-bit machine, while on
>> the 32-bit machine it works perfectly fine (this was also an issue I
>> recently had with mapserver 4.x).
>>
>> Despite these small obstacles, it seems that I am still able to use the
>> library to compile and run my own csharp application on 64-bit (as well
>> as 32-bit), regardless of the make test results.  I'm not sure if these
>> issues would be of imminent concern to any of the developers, but if so,
>> let me know if there is anything in particular I can do to help shed
>> light on their cause.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>