From a530ea0d1f0de7dd70bd63bf3d9900dc3bf8e60f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Cave-Ayland Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:27:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update PostGIS README file to account for changes in SVN trunk. git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@2920 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee --- README.postgis | 35 ++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.postgis b/README.postgis index e88f43dcc..53bcaf8e0 100644 --- a/README.postgis +++ b/README.postgis @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ PostGIS - Geographic Information Systems Extensions to PostgreSQL ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -VERSION: 1.3.3 (2008/04/12) +VERSION: 1.4.0 (TBC) MORE INFORMATION: http://postgis.refractions.net @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ spatial functions for accessing and analyzing geographic data. Directory structure: ./ Build scripts and install directions. - ./lwgeom Library source code. + ./liblwgeom LWGEOM access library. + ./lwgeom PostGIS library source code. ./java/ejb EJB Java support ./java/jdbc Extensions to the PostgreSQL JDBC drivers to support the GIS objects. @@ -31,23 +32,21 @@ Directory structure: REQUIREMENTS ------------ -PostGIS is compatible with PostgreSQL 8.0 and above. +PostGIS is compatible with PostgreSQL 8.1 and above. You *must* have full PostgreSQL - including server headers - installed -for this to work. Note that server headers are not installed by -default until PostgreSQL 8.0.0 and require the special 'install-all-headers' -Makefile rule. +for this to work. SEE THE NOTE ON GEOS SUPPORT BELOW FOR SPECIAL COMPILATION INSTRUCTIONS -* PROJ4 SUPPORT (Recommended): +* PROJ4 SUPPORT (Required): The Proj4 reprojection library is required if you want to use the transform() function to reproject features within the database. http://www.remotesensing.org/proj -* SPATIAL PREDICATE / GEOS SUPPORT (Recommended): +* SPATIAL PREDICATE / GEOS SUPPORT (Required): The GEOS library provides support for exact topological tests such as Touches(), Contains(), Disjoint() and spatial operations @@ -71,19 +70,21 @@ To configure PostGIS, run: ./configure -Last lines from configure output will give a configuration summary. +The results of the configuration can be easily seen within the +postgis_config.h file. If pg_config can't be found in your $PATH configure will complain and refuse to proceed. You can specify it using the ---with-pgsql=/path/to/pg_config flag. +--with-pgconfig=/path/to/pg_config flag. -If you don't see PROJ4 in the report (and you did have installed it) -this means that proj4 installation dir could not be found. -You can specify it using the --with-proj=DIR flag. +If PROJ4 has been installed (but cannot be found), configure will +complain and refuse to proceed. You can specify an alternative +installation directory using the --with-projdir=DIR option. -If you don't see GEOS in the report (and you did have installed it) -this means that geos-config could not be found. -You can specify it using the --with-geos=/path/to/geos-config flag. +If GEOS has been installed (but cannot be found), configure will +complain and refuse to proceed. You can specify an alternative +geos-config file using the --with-geosconfig=/path/to/geos-config +option. See ./configure --help for more options. @@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ To do so, as postgres run: Final lines of output contain a summary of test results: run, succeeded, failed. If you have any failure please file a bug report using the online bug tracker: -http://postgis.refractions.net/bugs. +http://code.google.com/p/postgis/issues/list. INSTALLATION ------------ -- 2.50.1