[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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