[postgis-devel] Making postgis_comments.sql

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk
Mon Feb 23 00:12:03 PST 2009


Obe, Regina wrote:

> I tried to change the Makefile.in in docs/ to autogenerate the 
> postgis_comments.sql, but don't seem to be having much luck.
> 
> Can some make wizard tell me what I am doing wrong.
> 
> I created as section postgis_comments.sql to define the compile
> 
> and in the all: call that.

It works for me, although don't forget that you need to re-run configure 
so that the new Makefile gets generated from configure.in.

> Also wondering where this file should sit.  I guess ideally it should 
> sit at the root with spatial_ref_sys.sql as it does in the 1.3.

That should be fairly easy to do; just change postgis_comments.sql to 
../postgis_comments.sql.


HTH,

Mark.

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