[Shapelib] [gdal-dev] shapelib 1.6.1RC2 available (was Re: shapelib 1.6.1RC1 available)

[Even Rouault]

Greg,

> 2) The tests all fail because they have #! lines with /bin/bash.
Should be addressed per https://github.com/OSGeo/shapelib/pull/150
> could document a dependency on bash, and then find bash with configure
> and substitute it, that all seems quite avoidable as I don't see
> anything in the test scripts that really need non-POSIX sh features.
>
> With the bash problem worked around, most tests pass, except
>
>    FAIL: tests/shpproj.sh
>    ======================
>
>    ../test-driver: ./tests/shpproj.sh: not found
>    FAIL tests/shpproj.sh (exit status: 127)
>
> and I don't see that in the tarball, so I'm guessing that isn't a
> problem only I am seeing.
>
> shapelib doesn't depend on proj, so perhaps there needs to be
> documentation of tests dependencies?
I don't reproduce that error (shpproj.sh used to test a shpproj.c 
utility that was removed during the PROJ6 transition, so this is a 
remains of a more complete tests, but it has the virtue of testing a few 
of the contrib/ utilities that have no tests otherwise)
>
> 4) I undid the kludge in 1, and I get a failure to build, because make
> fires the rule for one of the programs first, and libshp.la isn't built
> yet.  Running again with gmake instead, it builds.  So there's something
> wrong, but I suspect it's wiser to work around this by documenting that
> GNU Make is required.
The automake/autoconf build system doesn't not receive much love this 
days (but should not be worse or better that it used to be). Perhaps we 
should remove it at some point.
>
> 5) There are a surprisingly large number of programs in bin.  The pkgsrc
> package didn't used to install them, but they look like that likely
> won't conflict with other pacakges..  Do you think users of shapelib
> expect all of these to be installed?

No opinion here. I hardly use myself any of the shapelib utils. I see 
Debian ships all of them 
(https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/shapelib/filelist), but some of 
them come from the contrib/ area (which doesn't necessarily means they 
are worse qualities than other non-contrib utilities). I came much later 
to the party, so I don't have much historical background to provide.

Nothing of the above seems to be 1.6.1 specific, so I don't think it 
deserves a new RC

Even

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