Re: [Pkg-grass-general] Is the libmapserver-dev package useless?

[Frank Warmerdam <fwarmerdam@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 15:55:22 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been looking a bit more into the mapserver debian package issue,
> and come to realize that the libmapserver-dev package is very hard to
> use at the moment.  It is impossible to use the map.h header file
> unless compiling with the exact same compile time defines.  The reason
> for this is that the layout of the structures used by the map library
> depend on these defines, and a program using the library need to have
> the same layout as the library itself is using.
> 
> The short conclusion is that the libmapserver-dev package is useless
> in its current form.

Petter,

I'm not sure why you are offering a libmapserver-dev package.  
It isn't normal for folks to build external packages against the MapServer
C library.   I would suggest dropping the package -dev till you have a 
more compelling reason to have one. 

Best regards,
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