Thoughts on a mapserver-config script...

[Sean Gillies]

Amen.

Howard Butler wrote:
> -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,