[FGS] FGS Install Quirks
Paul Spencer
pspencer at dmsolutions.ca
Mon Jan 24 22:10:53 EST 2005
Frank,
I can't comment on most of these since I don't really understand how it
all works (pure magic to me) but my understanding is that it can be
built to include the binaries in a single file or to fetch them as
necessary into some sort of cache.
Also, there is an fgs-dev that can be used to build an fgs on any
machine, this is also nice since you get it compiled for your local setup :)
I second the motion to include a 'developer' mode in the binary installs
to provide the .h files (and anything else).
Now if only I could install OpenEV this way ... ;)
Cheers,
Paul
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I tried the 1.0.0 FGS install image from:
>
> http://www.maptools.org/dl/fgs/fgs-gmap-demo-1.0.0-linux-i386.bin
>
> It seemed to work pretty well. A few messages during the install (eg, a
> missing
> favicon file).
>
> A few notes:
>
> o Can you provide a C shell environment setup script as well as the bourne
> shell setenv.sh?
>
> o The install includes python scripts like gdal2xyz.py but it does not
> include
> python so if I run the scripts I get error messages about mismatched
> python
> versions. Is it prudent to distribute builds of python stuff without
> some
> assurance that a compatible python will be available?
>
> o In the past installation of FGS seemed to involve lots of packaged
> fetched
> one at a time. But the FGS page at http://www.maptools.org/fgs/ does
> not
> seem to discuss package repositories or anything like that. Are they
> still
> available? Are there optional packages not in the fgs-gmap-demo .bin?
>
> o The package I got did not seem to have developer stuff installed. Is
> there
> an interest in having fgs include developer packages (with include
> files and
> so forth)?
>
> o I noticed that there was a libgd.a distributed. Is there much point
> in that
> in a binary-only distribution?
>
> Overall though, a very nice job. It seems to capture all the required
> support
> files, and setup the environment well. These are areas often botched by
> distribution makers.
>
> Best regards,
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