[postgis-devel] Installation Paths

[strk at refractions.net]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:11:33AM +0100, strk at refractions.net wrote:
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> As a general mean to support parallel installation I think we should
> use completely custom paths, in a standard way. 

I'm still convinced we should switch to this behaviour.
It will allow parallel installation of even MICRO releases,
as you could have:
	--prefix=/usr/local/postgis-1.1.0 
	--prefix=/usr/local/postgis-1.1.1

You'll have standard switches to fine-tune paths:

	--bindir (loader/dumper)
	--datadir (lwpostgis.sql, lwpostgis_upgrade.sql, spatial_ref_sys.sql)
	--mandir (loader/dumper manual pages)
	--libdir (liblwgeom.so)

And non-standard (but common) switch for docs:

	--with-docdir (README.postgis, postgis.html)

What do you think ?

--strk;