[postgis-devel] postgis extension sans raster (only for folks who can't compile with raster support) - PSC Vote and developer/packager comments please

[Bborie Park]

I (as the primary author PostGIS Raster) know that PostGIS raster has zero
QT. So, for QT to come into the linkage process indicates to me that
something is amiss on FreeBSD.

-bborie

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:

>
> "Paragon Corporation" <lr at pcorp.us> writes:
>
> > One FreeBSD packager brought up that they can't compile PostGIS with
> raster
> > support because of the QT dependency it drags in among others.  I still
> > don't quite understand why that's a big deal.
>
> How long does it take for you to build QT from source?   It's enormous,
> and it makes postgresql seem small.  On some of my machines, I've seen
> it take multiple hours.
>
> I don't follow why postgis/raster needs qt, though.
>
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