[FGS] Re: [Gdal-dev] (no subject)

[Silke Reimer]

Hi Tyler (and all the others on this list)

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:13:29AM -0700, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> Silke, would you be able to join the Fgs project which aims to do the same 
> then but with only a tar.gz instead of RPM?
> See http://maxine.harmeny.com/twiki/bin/view/Fgs

Yes, I already had several looks on this page and I am subscribed to
the list almost from the very beginning. I just didn't have the time
by now to have a closer look. I think the project is very promising
but Bernhards comments on the freegis-list (see [1]) are really
worth to think about. 

I think that the main technical problem is that every distribution
has its own specialities. I already experienced this when I tested
the FreeGIS CD for "only" 4 distributions.

As far as I understood you are solving this by compiling every
necessary library for fgs, right? How far do you go with this
approach?

> 
> I would like to see your grass work rolled in as an fgs package regardless 
> of whether you are involved.  But here is an opportunity to help get grass 
> out there. 

It shouldn't be to difficult to build a fgs-conformant tar.gz out
form the rpm-build process: Just 
rpmbuild -bi grass.spec
cd ../BUILD/grass-root
tar xz * > grass.tar.gz

I am not aware though what adaptation will be necessary to adapt the
Library-paths for the packages since (as far as I understood your
procedure) you build everything which is necessary for the GIS-suite
and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATHS in a way that no other system libraries
are uses. Am I right?

Perhaps I will find some time to try it out this evening, but I am
not sure about it.

> 
> Thanks for your work on the rpms though.

Thanks :-) Since I had to build the packages within a project it was
obvious to share them when they are already made ;-)

[1]
http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/2004-June/001781.html


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Silke Reimer

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