[Mapserver-users] Compilation Question

[richard hornsby]

FW :> 	One last question... thought I would try without GDAL support, and had
FW :> the make run through successfully.  However, in make install, it was
FW :> attempting to copy map.h from an old install of Mapserver (a previous,
FW :> extremely unsuccessful attempt).  It is in the Makefile script at:
FW :> cp -f map.h , attempting to install libmap.a.  Should I download a copy
FW :> of Mapserver 3.5, configure, and then make clean to solve this problem??
FW :
FW :I don't follow this.


I'm not completely sure that I do either, but you may find that

$ make distclean

gives better results than just 'make clean'.  In some cases 'clean'
doesn't catch everything.  Also, be sure to note which user context you're
doing various steps in.  ie, if you 'make' as root and then try to 'make
clean' as non-root, it probably won't work, and its an easy thing to do ;)

As for gdal, I was able to ./configure, make, make install and then just
let mapserver's ./configure determine where it had gone to (ie,
'--with-gdal').  This may or may not work for you.

-rj

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