[Proj] Proj.4 4.9.2 RC2 Released

Elliott Sales de Andrade quantum.analyst at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 12:47:49 PDT 2015


On 10 September 2015 at 14:25, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:

>
> Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> writes:
>
> > Proj.4 4.9.2 RC2 is now available for testing. Please download it from
>
> This builds and passes make check on NetBSD 6 i386 under pkgsrc.  The
> only difference in installed files from 4.9.1 is proj_def.dat.
>
> There is an incremented soname, which is unfortunate, but I guess that's
> unavoidable as technically the renamed PVALUE symbol is an ABI break.
>
>
But PVALUE/PROJVALUE is the name of a structure. Since this is not C++, it
doesn't appear anywhere in the shared library ABI. This is not an ABI
break, it's an API break.


> So other than wishing the shlib major change was somehow avoidable,
> looks good to me.
>
>
The change was made to Makefile.am, but not Makefile.in (more reason to
avoid those generated files in git), so everyone has been testing against
the old soname.


-- 
Elliott
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