[postgis-devel] out-of-tree?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 12:35:38PM -0500, Regina Obe wrote:
> > > >> mkdir postgis-build
> > > >> cd postgis-build
> > > >> ../postgis-git/configure ... etcetc ...
> > > >> make
> > > >
> > > > It's not documented because should be common way.
> > >
> > > The build doco in the README.postgis still assumes in-tree building. I
> > didn't check the docbook.
> > 
> > There's no plan to *drop* support for in-tree building, just a movement
> > toward *ALSO* supporting out-of-tree building (which is not fully working
> > yet, for some make targets).
>
> So you going to document the out-of-tree building once it's completely
> working ?

There's really not much to document, it's all pretty standard autoconf. 
Just invoking the configure script from any directory blesses it as a
build dir.

--strk;