From: Regina Obe Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 02:14:06 +0000 (+0000) Subject: update ReadMe to include SFCGAL and preferred versions of GEOS/GDAL/CGAL. Put pretty... X-Git-Tag: 2.1.0beta2~15 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c5835306e41f65907cf6ff66ba1a4e6bcd8dcbdc;p=postgis update ReadMe to include SFCGAL and preferred versions of GEOS/GDAL/CGAL. Put pretty anchors in install so doesn't create hard to bookmark numbered anchors. git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@11413 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee --- diff --git a/README.postgis b/README.postgis index 12454e918..63e71b6e2 100644 --- a/README.postgis +++ b/README.postgis @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ PostGIS - Geographic Information Systems Extensions to PostgreSQL :Version: 2.1.0 :Date: 2013-MM-DD -:Website: http://postgis.org +:Website: http://postgis.net This distribution contains a module which implements GIS simple features, ties the features to R-tree indexing, and provides many spatial functions for @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ this to work. http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ -* GEOS (Required, Version 3.3.0 or higher): +* GEOS (Required, Version 3.3.0 or higher + - 3.4+ is strongly recommended and needed for full features): The GEOS library provides support for exact topological tests such as ST_Touches(), ST_Contains(), ST_Disjoint() and spatial operations such as @@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ this to work. * GNU gettext The loader, and hence PostGIS, requires GNU gettext 0.14 or higher + for translation support (typically in libc on GNU/Linux, in which case 0.17 is required). * JSON-C (Optional, Version 0.9 or higher) @@ -76,11 +78,15 @@ this to work. apt-get install libjson0-dev -* GDAL (Optional, Version 1.6.0 or higher) +* GDAL (Optional, Version 1.8.0 or higher 1.9+ is strongly recommended) needed for raster support + Also needed to install PostGIS using CREATE EXTENSION postgis; syntax GDAL (http://gdal.org) is *required* if you want to compile PostGIS with raster support. To compile without raster support you must ``./configure --without-raster`` + +* CGAL 4.1+ and SFCGAL (Optional) needed for advanced 3D support +https://github.com/Oslandia/SFCGAL CONFIGURATION @@ -117,6 +123,9 @@ If you want to compile PostGIS *without* Raster support, you must provide the If you want to compile PostGIS *without* Topology support, you must provide the ``--without-topology`` option. +PostGIS will be compiled with sfcgal support if it is found. You can explicitly +state the location with --with-sfcgal=path/to/sfcgal + See ``./configure --help`` for more options. diff --git a/doc/installation.xml b/doc/installation.xml index e9567b57e..a66fcaeb0 100644 --- a/doc/installation.xml +++ b/doc/installation.xml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This chapter details the steps required to install PostGIS. - + Short Version The raster support is currently optional, but installed by default. For installing using the PostgreSQL 9.1+ extensions model it is required. Please refer to if you are using PostgreSQL 9.1+. @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ in the docs folder - + Install Requirements @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ in the docs folder - + Getting the Source