[Mapserver-users] Do NOT use 'make install' with mapserver

[Daniel Morissette]

Vincent Schut wrote:
> 
> Maybe it's about time someone of the - don't misunderstand me, greatly
> appreciated - development team fixes this, or just removes the make install
> target, or at least puts something about this in the docs / readme files?
> 

The 'make install' has been disabled not long ago, but this was after
the 3.6.5 release (I know this should have been done before).  With the
CVS versions of 3.7-dev and in 3.6.6-dev, typing 'make install' returns:

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***** MapServer Installation *****
To install MapServer, copy the 'mapserv' file to your web server's
cgi-bin directory.

If you use MapScript then see the documentation for your specific
MapScript version for installation instructions.
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Daniel
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