[postgis-devel] loader/Makefile is broken in 1.4rc1

[Devrim GÜNDÜZ]

Hi,

On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 09:05 -0700, Kevin Neufeld wrote:

> Mark will be able to explain the change to the Makefile in more
> detail,  but in short, as of 1.4 PostGIS no longer uses the --prefix
> option during configure 

Why?

> so there is no DESTDIR.  Rather, it installs in the 
> same directory as the detected (or specified) PostgreSQL directory.

Why was it changed? Why do I have to install PostGIS under PostgreSQL
directory? I believe RPM/deb/whatever users will want to stick with FHS.

> The CPPFLAGS are not hard coded as you perceive.  There is a
> Makefile.in  file that configure uses to generate the actual
> Makefile. 
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/browser/branches/1.4/loader/Makefile.in#L22
> 
> The /usr/local/pgsql/8.3/ path you have is the location of your
> detected (or specified) postgresql installation.  

I don't have such a directory. I'm not sure how it was detected .

> I don't know why the the shape loader program is trying to install
> to /usr/bin/, that looks like a bug 
> ... you should see it go to /usr/local/pgsql/8.3/bin.

See above :)

Regards,
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