Thoughts on a mapserver-config script...

[Umberto Nicoletti]

On 6/6/07, Tamas Szekeres <szekerest at gmail.com> wrote:
> Umberto,
>
> Isn't that Daniel's comments at
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/1884 may be relevant to this
> demand?

Yes they are.
My point is that some laguages like perl, python and ruby do not have
makefiles and at the moment they resort to reading the mapscriptvars
file, while java and csharp do have a Makefile and if mapserver-config
could have an option to just output the same defines that go into
mapscriptvars we could think of a way of unifying the whole process.

The mapserver-config could even do something as simple as:

head -2 < mapscriptvars | tail -1

to get the needed swig defines. Of course if mapserver-config is to be
installed somewhere like /usr/local it must know where to find the
mapscriptvars file.
The alternative is to add the substitution of ALL_ENABLED like
suggested in #1884.

This also raises the question if mapscriptvars is still needed and if
mapserver-config should replace it.

Umberto

>
> 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,
> > > --
> > > ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
> > > I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
> > > light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
> > > and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
> > >
> >
>