[postgis-devel] Problems trying to build with PostGIS

[Roberto Ribeiro]

Hello Regina,

thank you for the clarification, and sorry for the lateness in my reply! I
will look further into LibRTTopo!

2018-04-18 1:50 GMT-03:00 Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us>:

> Postgis_svn_revision.h is autogenerated by the svn_repo_revision.pl
> script.
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> It should happen if you do
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> sh autogen.sh
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> I've had some issues in some cases where it didn't autogenerate, so had to
> explicitly do it with something like below
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> # generating postgis_svn_revision.h in case hasn't been generated
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> if test -f utils/svn_repo_revision.pl; then
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> echo "Generating postgis_svn_revision.h"
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> perl utils/svn_repo_revision.pl
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> fi
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> That said, what you are doing is not supported.  liblwgeom_internal, as
> I'd like to think about it is postgis underwear and is prone to change
> without notice so your code will be fragile if you try to build against it
> and your code is not part of postgis.
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> If you want to reuse liblwgeom, you'd probably be better off using the
> forked project:
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> https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/rttopo/librttopo
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> Sandro can speak more about this since he was the one who had the crazy
> idea of sharing our dirty laundry with the world, that Paul and I were
> vehemently against it because of dependency hell.
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> Thanks,
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> Regina
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> *From:* postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Roberto Ribeiro
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 17, 2018 6:57 PM
> *To:* postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [postgis-devel] Problems trying to build with PostGIS
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> Hello list,
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> I'm writing a Postgres extension that uses part of the PostGIS code.
> Specifically I'm including liblwgeom_internal.h, which in turn calls
> postgis_config.h, which then tries to include postgis_svn_revision.h. This,
> however, I can't find anywhere in the source. Could anyone inform me if
> this is a missing file, or if I'm doing it wrong?
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> My source was directly cloned from the git a couple of days ago.
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