[postgis-users] 1.3.4SVN Testers Wanted

[Chris Hermansen]

I'm a willing 1.3.4 tester in principle, but the weakness of the flesh
is upon me :-(

I have Ubuntu 8.04 running on my machine, all patched up.  Included is
PostgreSQL 8.3 from the repositories (server development files included)
and PostGIS1.3.3 also from the repositories.

I downloaded the two tar files below.  GEOS went in fine, including make
test.

Before building the PostGIS, I did an apt-get build-dep postgis and a
few things came down from the repositories.

OK, so here I am in the postgis1.3svn directory.

./configure runs very very quickly, with only one warning message:

checking which template to use... linux
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile.config
config.status: WARNING:  Makefile.config.in seems to ignore the
--datarootdir setting
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged

and then gives a status:

 SUMMARY
 -------------------------------------------------------
 
 HOST_OS: linux-gnu
 
   PGSQL: /usr/bin/pg_config
    GEOS: /usr/local/bin/geos-config (with C-API)
          (ldflags: -L/usr/local/lib)
    PROJ: prefix=/usr libdir=/usr/lib
   ICONV: 1
 
 PORTNAME: linux
   PREFIX: /usr
  EPREFIX: ${prefix}
      DOC: /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc-8.3/contrib
     DATA: ${datarootdir}
      MAN: ${datarootdir}/man
      BIN: /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin
      EXT: /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/lib (\$$libdir)
 -------------------------------------------------------

make runs even more quickly, here's the sum total:

clh at TNRG048:~/src/postgis-1.3.svn$ make
make -C lwgeom
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/clh/src/postgis-1.3.svn/lwgeom'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/clh/src/postgis-1.3.svn/lwgeom'
make -C loader
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/clh/src/postgis-1.3.svn/loader'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/clh/src/postgis-1.3.svn/loader'
make -C utils
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/clh/src/postgis-1.3.svn/utils'
chmod +x postgis_restore.pl create_undef.pl postgis_proc_upgrade.pl
profile_intersects.pl test_estimation.pl test_joinestimation.pl
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/clh/src/postgis-1.3.svn/utils'
clh at TNRG048:~/src/postgis-1.3.svn$

Not much to test there :-(

Any ideas?

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 1.3.4 is very close to release, but we can release it faster, with
> less intestinal distress, if we get some solid pre-release testing
> from folks. You can download the current SVN version directly from the
> downloads page, no SVN client required:
>
> http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.3.4SVN.tar.gz
>
> If you want to also try the latest preparedgeometry enhancements,
> you'll need to upgrade your GEOS version to the SVN trunk before
> compiling and installing1.3.4SVN,
> http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-svn.tar.bz2
>
> Even if you don't, you should see some performance increases in 1.3.4,
> particularly in point-and-polygon predicate tests, and large joins
> using point-ant-polygon predicates.
>
> Let us know how it goes. We are particularly  interested in any
> compilation difficulties or regression failures on less common unix
> variants (Solaris on Sparc, AIX on Power, etc)
>
> Paul
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