C dependency geos: Plan for refresh from original repo

[prashantkhoje]

Cockroachdb has forked package geos to be used with it.
The forked repo is ~2 year old.
Is there plan to refresh it from original repo?
On ppc64le, i found that forked repo has 12 failures:

     11 - unit-algorithm-LocatePointInRing (Failed)
     14 - unit-algorithm-OrientationIndexFailure (Failed)
     17 - unit-algorithm-RobustLineIntersector (Failed)
     82 - unit-capi-GEOSVoronoiDiagram (Failed)
    116 - unit-geom-Triangle (Failed)
    129 - unit-linearref-LengthIndexedLine (Failed)
    130 - unit-math-DD (Failed)
    142 - unit-operation-distance-DistanceOp (Failed)
    177 - general-TestCentroid (Failed)
    191 - general-TestFunctionPLPrec (Failed)
    222 - issue-issue-geos-350 (Failed)
    269 - robust-TestRobustRelate (Failed)

Whereas, original geos has only 1 failure:

   243 - unit-shape-fractal-HilbertEncoder (Failed)

I understand ppc64le is not supported by cockroachdb.

Thank you,
Prashant

[prashantkhoje]

@otan, Would you be able to comment on this?

Thank you,
Prashant

[otan]

Hey @prashantkhoje, no immediate plans, but I'll try make time for it later this release. It will be at least 6 months until we refresh, however.

[otan]

Moved to #81290