[Xastir] libgdal is the master here...

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 09:43:11PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 04:44:46PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <r.polivka at sbcglobal.net> flavor, containing:
> > Tom:
> > 
> > ldd spews for libgdal.so:  libgrass_rtree is linked in.
> 
> No surprise.  Hadda have been where it was coming from.
> 
> > ldd spews fro libgrass_rtree: nothing except for libm and libc.
> > 
> > F7 repo uses gdal-1.4.1, grass-libs-6.2.1
> > 
> > I will have to concur that gdal was built full up but I do not see a circular reference in place. GRASS will stand free, but GDAL needs GRASS (there is a bad joke in there somewhere). 
> 
> Actually, no.  GRASS absolutely requires GDAL, and will not build without
> it --- unless it's quite an old version of GRASS for which GDAL was merely
> optional.  

How the F7 repository gets around the circular dependency is probably by
bundling the GRASS libraries with the GDAL package, and then having a 
GRASS package that requires the GDAL package to work (thereby getting all
of its own libraries from a separate package).  An icky solution for which
someone will probably not go to heaven, but one that gets rid of the circular 
dependency by blurring the boundaries between the two highly interdependent
pieces of software.

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