Bug#138971: ITP Mapserver

[Paul Baker <pbaker@where2getit.com>]

On Aug 19, 2004, at 5:45 AM, Robert Jordens wrote:

> I'll try to sponsor the package as much as I can. That might be quite
> irregular but OTOH I'll have times of "high activity".
>
> What bothers me most at the moment is the following:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root    581952 2004-08-19 12:27:15 ./usr/bin/legend
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root    581952 2004-08-19 12:27:15 ./usr/bin/scalebar
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root    581952 2004-08-19 12:27:15 ./usr/bin/shp2img
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root    581964 2004-08-19 12:27:15 ./usr/bin/shp2pdf
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root    581956 2004-08-19 12:27:15 ./usr/bin/shptree
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root    581952 2004-08-19 12:27:15 ./usr/bin/shptreetst
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root    581956 2004-08-19 12:27:15 ./usr/bin/shptreevis
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root    581956 2004-08-19 12:27:15 ./usr/bin/sortshp
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root    581956 2004-08-19 12:27:15 ./usr/bin/tile4ms
>
> libmap.a gets statically compiled into all binaries. You should link 
> the binaries against the shared library and create a separate package.
>
> The rest looks quite clean and well done.

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 
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.

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Paul Baker

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