Thoughts on a mapserver-config script...

[Daniel Morissette]

Yes, and checking the Makefile.in it seems that we've already done it 
for the shared lib:

#
# Name of static and shared libs to produce
#
LIBMAP_STATIC=  libmap.a
LIBMAP_SHARED=  libmapserver. at SO_EXT@
LIBMAP_SH_VER=  libmapserver.$(MS_VERSION). at SO_EXT@

Not sure why we didn't do it for the static lib, but that should be a 
very straightforward change. I'll take care of it unless I hear objections.

Daniel


Steve Lime wrote:
> I recall Dan wanting to actually do it...
> 
>>>> Sean Gillies <sgillies at FRII.COM> 06/06/07 6:09 PM >>>
> 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,


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Daniel Morissette
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