[Xastir] geotiff includes on Ubuntu 8.03

Curt, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Sat Jul 5 15:02:07 EDT 2008


On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Tom Russo wrote:

> Adding configure command line options is always necessary to deal with
> nonstandard installs.  Peppering the configure script with tricks to look
> everywhere that might have the desired files is unmaintainable and often
> breaks.  Look at the mess we have for BDB --- it tries all manner of crazy
> things to find db headers, and often screws up, all because no two installs
> of BDB seem to be consistent.

Rgr.  BDB:  Another of nemesis of ours, and of other projects!

If the /usr/include/geotiff/ directory becomes commonplace later I'd
advocate adding it to our autoconf scripts.

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