[postgis-devel] Documentation and comments in tarball

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 09:34:40AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:30:38PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >
> > Note that building docs is not mandatory, they aren't built by default.
> > If all you need is _reading_ the manual you have convenient separate
> > downloads here: http://www.postgis.org/documentation/
> 
> What I am trying to do is prepare a complete binary package for postgis,
> for use by other people who might or might not be offline.

Understood. I've no problem with doing that, and am available to make
it as painless as possible for packagers.



>  loader/Latin1 ... failed ( wkb test: running shp2pgsql output: /tmp/pgis_reg_17179/loader.err)
> 
> I get:
> 
>  psql:/tmp/pgis_reg_9886/loader.out:7: ERROR:  value too long for type character varying(32)
> 
> and sure enough the insert statement seems to have more than 32 characters.
> 
> Is this known, or should I file a ticket?

Please file a ticket. Any failure in testsuite is unexpected.

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