Easier to compile? Yes. The libraries will be up to date. Easier to ensure MapGuide stability? That's a very good question. Mixing and matching oem libs could potentially lead to unexpected side effects but more up to date libraries *should* have fewer bugs.
Regards, Trevor -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Zac Spitzer Sent: March 31, 2010 5:50 PM To: MapGuide Users Mail List Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] building 64bit openmapguide on rhel 5.4 migrating away from using all these third party libs in the oem tree on linux and use the system ones when possible is a better approach On 1 April 2010 10:34, Trevor Wekel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rajeev, > > Third party components can be very tricky business in MapGuide. For example, > Berkeley DB XML uses specific versions of xerces and xalan. These three > third party libraries should remain in sync to ensure repository stability. > In order to compile with GCC 4.4, we will need to update a significant > portion of the Oem tree. Since we are about to hit beta, I would say any > additional changes to third party / Oem libraries would have to be considered > on a case by case basis. > > Hopefully our existing set of third party libs will compile successfully on > 64 bit Linux. If not, RFC's will have to be written to get the libraries > upgraded. For example, RFC 89 > http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc89 was a required upgrade for > 2.2. > > As for source code modifications, yes there have been a few > (geos,swig,agg,others?). I do not know if the modifications have made it > back into their respective projects. > > Regards, > Trevor > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rajeev Singh > Sent: March 31, 2010 7:02 AM > To: MapGuide Users Mail List > Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] building 64bit openmapguide on rhel 5.4 > > Hi Trevor, > > I will certainly look into this - though adam probably will get to it > sooner. Right now finally gotten around to looking at 32 bit crash of 2.0.2 > branch (had filed a bug earlier, essentially every 1/2 hr or so the process > crashes). > > As an aside, when going thru the attempt on 2.0.2, I did complie FDO 3.3.2 > on 64 bit (compiled all except a few dealing with ODBC/PostGis/Oracle, but > including MySQL) > > On a different note, lots of third party components are used with mapguide. > At some point I think I had seen in some mailing list that the source code > have been modified. Is that really so or can we instead create a packaging > that uses the latest / required binaries of those components (I can help > with that) > > thanks > rajeev > > _______________________________________________ > mapguide-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users > > -- Zac Spitzer Solution Architect / Director Ennoble Consultancy Australia http://www.ennoble.com.au http://zacster.blogspot.com +61 405 847 168 _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users
