[Slackbuilds-users] RFC updates for gdal slackbuild

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2023, Greg Tourte wrote:

> I have been looking at the gdal slackbuild for version 3.8. I have held off
> for now as it had an issue with building when an older version was
> installed. Since I reported the issue upstream and a patch has since then
> been written, I can now work on it.
>
> The new release is rather trivial although it bumps the shared library
> version. However, the current script doesn't really specify most
> dependencies and basically relies on what is already installed on the
> system. Most other distro packages will build gdal with enforced
> dependencies and I am very tempted to change the script to do so as well
> (especially now that the circular libspatialite dependency is no longer an
> issue).
>
> What do people think. Do any one have any objections?

Greg,

I've always built the stack in this order: proj -> geos -> gdal -> pdal. I
support your suggested change to show required dependencies.

Thanks,

Rich