Thoughts on a mapserver-config script...

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

+1 on that.

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	-lmapserver instead of -lmap, IMO.  This is the time to do it.
	
	Howard
	
	On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Tamas Szekeres wrote:
	
	> Umberto,
	>
	> Isn't that Daniel's comments at
	> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/1884 may be relevant to this
	> demand?
	>
	> Tamas
	>
	>
	> 2007/6/6, Umberto Nicoletti <umberto.nicoletti at gmail.com>:
	>> It would also be very cool if the script could spit out only the
	>> -DXXXX params for usage with swig.
	>>
	>> Umberto
	>>
	>> On 6/6/07, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
	>> > Steve Lime wrote:
	>> > > I checked on how GDAL did this and copied that process over to 
	>> mapserver in
	>> > > the main branch. Doing a 'make' will create a mapserver-config 
	>> script now
	>> > > although it likely needs tweaking...
	>> >
	>> > Steve,
	>> >
	>> > This looks promising on a preliminary review.
	>> >
	>> > I notice that "mapserver-config --libs" does not include -lmap.  
	>> Shouldn't it?
	>> > I also think the value of this is somewhat limited yet since we 
	>> don't have
	>> > a concept of installing mapserver yet.  So we can't actually 
	>> point things
	>> > at the installed location of the mapserver library (or include 
	>> files).
	>> >
	>> > Also, I think a config switch that reports the full version 
	>> string like
	>> > the following would be nice.  Though I can't see exactly how 
	>> this would
	>> > be accomplished without some substantial changes since this is 
	>> normally
	>> > constructed based on macros in maperror.c.
	>> >
	>> >   OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=SVG 
	>> SUPPORTS=PROJ
	>> > SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER 
	>> SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER
	>> > INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE DEBUG=MSDEBUG
	>> >
	>> > Best regards,
	>> > --
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	>>