[postgis-devel] The best way of adding the raster code

[Paul Ramsey]

I think rather than dropping a Makefile.in into the root, you should
have a 'raster' target in GNUMakefile, a 'raster-clean' target, etc,
etc.

The --with-raster flag in the configure.ac will set @values@ and also
conditionally do the checks for the raster-only dependencies (GDAL).

Inside the raster directory itself, you can have a Makefile.in, and in
the case where the --with-raster flag was not set, it can just do
nothing in its compile/clean/etc phases.

Then, when it's time to make raster a default/required part of the
build (which will happen before 2.0), we just remove the --with-raster
from config.ac and the checks in the Makefile.in in the raster
directory.

Sound OK?

P

2010/9/23 Jorge Arévalo <jorge.arevalo at deimos-space.com>:
> 2010/9/23 Jorge Arévalo <jorge.arevalo at deimos-space.com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm adding the WKT Raster [1] (now PostGIS raster) code to the PostGIS
>> trunk. I've created a separated folder, named "raster" in the PostGIS
>> root. All the raster stuff is inside that folder. Then, I've added
>> some macros on configure.ac, to configure the PostGIS Raster sources
>> *only* if "--with-raster" option is provided at configure time.
>>
>> I've modified the GNUMakefile file to add the raster rules, but the
>> point is I only want these rules added when I explicity say (with
>> "--with-raster" option) I DO want to compile raster stuff at configure
>> time.
>>
>> So, what's the best solution here? I want to cause the less impact to
>> the current PostGIS source code, of course.
>>
>> Thanks in advance, and best regards,
>>
>
> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/WKTRaster
>
>
> Sorry, I forgot to say my idea is I should create a Makefile.in file
> at root level, and allow ./configure to generate raster stuff only in
> case "--with-raster" option is provided. But I'm not sure.
>
> Thanks again,
>
>
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