[postgis-users] Question about the regression tests on Windows

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-
> bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of DANTE ALEXANDRA
> Sent: 21 April 2006 07:51
> To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
> Subject: [postgis-users] Question about the regression tests on Windows
> 
> Hello List,
> 
> I got a question about the PostGIS regression tests.
> Using MinGW and Msys, I have compiled PostGreSQL 8.1.3, Geos 2.2.1, Proj
> 4.4.9 and PostGIS 1.1.2 on Windows 2000 Professionnel.
> As my system is a french one, "initdb" has built the database cluster
> using as locale support "French_France.1252". So to run the regression
> tests, I have done :
> - stop the postmaster
> - modify the "postgresql.conf" file to set :
> # These settings are initialized by initdb -- they might be changed
> lc_messages = 'C'#'French_France.1252'                  # locale for
> system error message strings
> lc_monetary = 'C'#'French_France.1252'                  # locale for
> monetary formatting
> lc_numeric = 'C'#'French_France.1252'                   # locale for
> number formatting
> lc_time = 'C'#'French_France.1252'                      # locale for
> time formatting
> - restart the postmaster
> - go to the repertory of the PostGIS sources which is
> "/home/dantea/sources/PostGIS/postgis-1.1.2/" (that is to say
> "C:\msys\1.0\home\dantea\sources\PostGIS\postgis-1.1.2"), directory
> where PostGIS was compiled
> - launch the "make test" command.

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> Have you already encounter this problem of "path" in the lwpostgis.sql
> file ?
> Why do this file, stored in the "regress" directory, contain this path ?
> Have you already passed the regression tests ?
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> Regards,
> Alexandra DANTE


Hi Alexandra,

Yes, I discovered this issue while preparing the Win32 builds at
http://www.webbased.co.uk/mca/ and posted a patch to the postgis-devel list
here:
http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-devel/2006-April/002055.htm
l. This patch has now been applied to CVS, so the regression tests for
1.1.3/CVS should run without a problem. 

Also, if you are building from source, you may be interested the see the
win32build.sh script I use as part of the Win32 installer which can be
downloaded as part of the installer source
(http://www.webbased.co.uk/mca/pg81/postgis-pg81-1.1.2-installersrc.zip).
This includes the above patch in the patches/ directory, but you'll need to
manually apply it and run ./autogen.sh before starting the build.


Kind regards,

Mark.

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