[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #3027: postgis.control not installed without raster support

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#3027: postgis.control not installed without raster support
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 Reporter:  springmeyer  |       Owner:  pramsey
     Type:  defect       |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  medium       |   Milestone:         
Component:  postgis      |     Version:  2.1.x  
 Keywords:               |  
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 Apologies if I am misunderstanding something, however I'm seeing that:


 - `postgis.control` needs to be installed into
 `share/postgresql/extension/` in order to be able to run `psql
 template_postgis -c "CREATE EXTENSION postgis;"` without an error.
 - and `postgis.conrol` is only installed if postgis raster support is
 enabled.

 This seems very odd to me: you should be able to use PostGIS without gdal
 support built in without the `CREATE EXTENSION postgis;` function broken.
 Right? Or am I missing something obvious? I think this is the root of the
 confusion behind https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/33566
 (basically homebrew can't figure out how to package working postgis
 install as a binary because they likely did not build the binary with
 raster support).

 It looks like this has been like this for a while:
 https://github.com/postgis/postgis/commit/75eea67e6ec68fdd2de1819e7064d998183cf4a8.
 Would it be feasible to still install `postgis.control` without needing
 raster support?

 See also #2356 which may be related

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