From b1a9245652a6f6d2f61cf9e4004a8b78b5a06d95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Regina Obe Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:29:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] document --with-gettext=no optionand case why you would want to do this. Also minor modifications as to use GEOS 3.3.2 and why you should git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@8812 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee --- doc/installation.xml | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/installation.xml b/doc/installation.xml index 326d30f74..3b4bb00cf 100644 --- a/doc/installation.xml +++ b/doc/installation.xml @@ -98,13 +98,12 @@ you do a make comments or make topology_comments.sql - GEOS geometry library, version 3.2.2 or greater, but GEOS 3.3 is recommended. Without GEOS 3.3, + GEOS geometry library, version 3.2.2 or greater, but GEOS 3.3.2+ is recommended. Without GEOS 3.3, you will be missing some major enhancements with handling of topological exceptions and improvements to geometry validation and - making geometries valid such as ST_ValidDetail and ST_MakeValid. GEOS is available for download from + making geometries valid such as ST_ValidDetail and ST_MakeValid. GEOS 3.3.2+ is also required for topology support. GEOS is available for download from http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ - - . + and 3.3+ is backward-compatible with older versions so fairly safe to upgrade. @@ -124,8 +123,7 @@ you do a make comments or make topology_comments.sql - GDAL, version 1.6 or higher (1.8 or higher is preferable since some things will not work well with lower versions). This is needed for raster support and will be required in final - release of PostGIS 2.0. + GDAL, version 1.6 or higher (1.9 or higher is preferable since some things will not work well with lower versions). This is needed for raster support and will be required in final release of PostGIS 2.0. http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource. @@ -457,6 +455,17 @@ tar -xvzf postgis-&last_release_version;.tar.gz + + --with-gettext=no + + + By default PostGIS will try to detect gettext support and compile with it, however if you run into incompatibility issues that + cause breakage of loader, you can disable it entirely with this command. Refer to ticket http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/748 for an example issue solved by configuring with this. + NOTE: that you aren't missing much by turning this off. This is used for international help/label support for the GUI loader which is not yet documented + and still experimental. + + + -- 2.49.0