[postgis-users] Building under FreeBSD

[Craig Miller]

Uh.. <blush> errrr.. that should have read, "Thanks for taking the time to
write the add-on to Postgres and Open-Sourcing it."

--Craig

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Miller" <craig at millerfam.net>
To: "PostGIS Users List" <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 10:28 PM
Subject: [postgis-users] Building under FreeBSD


> Hi guys,
>
> I just got PostGIS to build under FreeBSD.  It is looking really good.
> Thanks for taking the time to right the add-on to Postgres and open
sourcing
> it.
>
> I had to do a number of odd things to get it to compile...  The only
> significant item was that I had to add
>
> include "machine/endian.h"
>
> to postgis_debug.c and one other (don't remember which one).
>
> Seems like I remember building everything OK a month ago, so I am
wondering
> if I did something that caused this dependency to suddenly appear.  I
played
> around with a lot of different postgres build types before settling on the
> standard one in the FreeBSD ports collection (PostgreSQL 7.2.2).  Did one
of
> the Postgres headers in an older version define BYTE_ORDER?
>
> Minor feedback on compiling JDBC -- instructions were a little sparse for
a
> novice.  There is for example no mention that you should compile Postgres
> itself to have java support, or that you probably want it compiled to run
as
> a tcp service.  Not that this was hard to figure out, but if someone just
> wanted to run PostGIS and had never built anything from source they would
> probably not be able to do so from the provided instructions.  I had to
> update the classpath to correctly reference the location of the postgres
> jar.  Also the default build does not build the postgis jar which is
> probably of interest to someone if they are building JDBC support.
>
> Thanks again.  I am glad to be up and running.  Now to load a bunch of
data
> and start writing some client code!
>
> --Craig
>
>
>
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