[postgis-users] Homework for RPM Users

[Paul Ramsey]

Oops, forgot to tell you. Get the SRPMs from:

   http://postgis.refractions.net/rpms

On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 10:26 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:

> Hi RPM'ers.
> I have finished compiling a complete set of SRPM packages for postgis, 
> mapserver, and all other required open source libraries.  Now, I need 
> you, the fine users of postgis, to compile them for me on different 
> platforms.
> If someone has a default install of Fedora 1, they should compile 
> flawlessly (omit the curl package, you already have that).
> For Red Hat 9, again, everything should be hunky dory, but you'll have 
> to do the curl package, as the RH9 default is not a high enough 
> version for mapserver.
> For older distros, things will probably get harder, but might still 
> work OK.  Red Hat 7.3 is probably the most important, since it was 
> very widespread.
> For Fedora, RH9, building SRPMS is really easy.
>
> - Make sure you have rpm-devel installed already.
> - rpm -Uvh sourcepackage.src.rpm
> - cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> - rpmbuild -bb sourcepackage.spec
> - find your new RPM in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
> - the recommended build order is curl, geos, proj, gdal, postgresql, 
> mapserver
> - when you have built RPMs and have tested them, drop me a line so I 
> can put them online for others to download
>
> For my next trick, I will bundle some demo data and interfaces with 
> the mapserver build so that it just "runs" out of the box.
>
>      Paul Ramsey
>      Refractions Research
>      Email: pramsey at refractions.net
>      Phone: (250) 885-0632
>
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      Paul Ramsey
      Refractions Research
      Email: pramsey at refractions.net
      Phone: (250) 885-0632