[postgis-devel] autoconf paths

[strk at refractions.net]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:10:57PM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi, Strk,
> 
> strk at refractions.net schrieb:
> >I'm not sure we should keep relying on pgsql layout, although
> >your solution is viable. Actually I was thinking that allowing
> >storage of extension lib itself in a postgis-specific directory
> >would permit using different postgis versions for different
> >databases of the same cluster (does it make any sense?).
> 
> Yes, it does make sense, it is what I do on my developer machines all 
> day. :-)
> 
> Sometimes, it is not possible to migrate one database to a new postgis 
> version because the app is incompatible, but another app that uses a 
> different database relies on the new features.
> 
> So I think the most flexible may be to use the output of "pg_config 
> --configure" by default, but allow both overriding individual parameters 
> via --docdir, --bindir etc. or using --prefix to have everything bundled 
> together in $PREFIX/bin, $PREFIX/lib etc. However, I think this may make 
> the configuring process too complex.

No I think it's fine, no options for a default build, a --prefix for
a full-contained postgis installation. Any more complex setup would
require more complex ./configure call... 

--strk;

> 
> Markus
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