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Bug#138971: ITP Mapserver



Hello!

[Thu, 19 Aug 2004] Paul Baker wrote:
> Upstream has never meant for libmap.a to be a shared libary from what I 
> gather. The build process does not support it in the slightest. (unless 
> this changed in 4.2.x) I don't have enough experience with C to be or 

in 4.2.2 it does: "make libmap.so" But that would have to be tweaked to
contain a SONAME, be -fPIC (or not..).

> it's many different possible build processes to be able to turn that 
> into a shared library, so for now it would have to continue to be 
> static.

Hmm. To me missing manpages cause far less pain than the fact that
libmap.so is not a decent shared library. If I get time I'll dive into
it to break it apart.

        Robert.

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