[Community] installation of PCL after mapserver using apt-get

[Matthew Perry]

Jean,

On 1/20/06, BALTUS Jean <jean.baltus at africamuseum.be> wrote:
> I've installed mapserver using apt-get from the stable realease of Debian.
>
> When installing PCL, one is asked to configure the path of the mapserver
> source …
>
> Is there any way we can install PCL without having to install mapserver from
> source? If Yes, which path should I provide in the configuration file?

I recently tried building PCL using mapserver and ogr packages on
ubuntu. My conclusion was that it is much easier to build everything
from source.

1. PCL requires the GDAL&OGR python modules but (in ubunutu anyway)
they come for python2.4 only. Zope runs on python2.3 so I had to
recompile gdal --with-pymoddir to get modules built for 2.3

2. Like you said, PCL needs the mapserver include and until they make
a mapserver-dev package, this requires the source tree.

3. You need python mapscript built for python 2.3 (same problem as #1)

Of course this has the advantage of being able to build ogr, gdal and
maposerver with added functionality which was essential in my case
since I needed GRASS support.

I have all my notes from the install and am working on putting them
into some readable how-to ... let me know if you need any specific
details.


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Matt Perry
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