[Mapserver-users] configure options and using --without

[Tyler Mitchell]

I understand the linking issues but was trying to strip out as much as 
possible (purely as an academic exercise) to make sure I really understood 
the minimal dependencies.
Thanks for the discussion - it clarified the point for me.

Tyler

mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu wrote on 03/23/2004 11:14:24 AM:

> Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> > I am trying to explicitly disable support for several configure 
options 
> > and am finding that some appear not to have a "without" option.  Is 
this 
> > normal use of configure options?  I see that some options have with 
and 
> > without in the ./configure --help listing, but assumed that without 
should 
> > work on any option.  What do you think?
> > 
> 
> In general, using --without should work even if not explicitly listed in 

> the --help.
> 
> > 
> > ./configure --without-mpatrol
> > 
> > checking whether we should compile in MPATROL support...
> > configure: error: Could not find mpatrol.h or 
libmpatrol.a/libmpatrol.so 
> > in /
> > data4/src/gis/mapserver-4.0.1/no.
> > 
> 
> There was a typo in a variable in the configure.in that caused that.  I 
> have fixed it in the 4.1 CVS.
> 
> 
> > ----------
> > Here are a few of the other options I found I couldn't explicitly 
disable. 
> >  I assume some of this may be due to requirements of GD and MapServer. 

> >>From everything I've read, GD is the only requirement - but of course 
> > jpeg, freetype, png (and zlib) could all be used by GD, so I can see 
that 
> > mapserv won't do a heck of a lot if I disable these, but humour me :)
> > Here's what I found happened when I attempted to disable each of these 
- 
> > only PNG appears to not have got added in - any idea why?
> > 
> 
> Seems that the configure script isn't bullet-proof and assumes that 
> nobody will try to disable an option that's already built into their 
> system. i.e. if your GD was built with jpeg, zlib, png and/or freetype, 
> then having the ability to disable some or all of them in MapServer's 
> Makefile would only result in linking problems. Since that doesn't 
> impact usage in normal conditions I didn't really investigate any 
> further, but you could always file this as a bug.
> 
> Daniel
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