[postgis-devel] Configure step - Mac OsX

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Courtin Olivier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On my Mac OS 10.5, i met few errors with the PostGIS trunk configure step,
> so a little patch with following;
> 
> - xsl stylesheet is a need for documentation, but not for Postgis build
> - nice user message with ./configure --help
> - libiconv flag when AC_CHECK_LIB don't return -liconv in $LIBS
> 
> HTH,
> 
> 
> -- 
> Olivier


Hi Olivier,

Many thanks for your feedback. As you probably appreciate, SVN trunk is 
currently an active work in progress and so is less well tested across 
multiple OSs ;)

I've applied parts of this patch to SVN trunk, in particular the changes 
to the documentation Makefile. Looking at the parts of the patch related 
to configure --help, I can see that there is actually an AS_HELP_STRING 
macro that will do the output formatting for you, so I have made use of 
that instead.

The part of the patch related to changing XSLBASE errors into warnings 
is not needed, since the real problem was that the checking of the value 
should only have been done if an explicit --with-xsldir parameter was 
specified on the command line - your documentation Makefile changes will 
resolve the remaining issues here.

I'm currently re-working the missing linker flag part of the patch (and 
will apply shortly). The problem was I didn't realise that LIBS didn't 
get automatically set if the AC_CHECK_LIB() action-if-found is set.


ATB,

Mark.

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