[postgis-users] Compatibility with PostgreSQL 8.1.2

[Frank Koormann]

Bert,

* Bert Hinrichs <a.hinrichs1 at comcast.net> [060131 05:32]:
>    I successfully download, installed, and set up PostgreSQL 8.1.2 for Fedora
>    Core 4 from rpms.
>     
>    I attempted to use the PosgGIS 1.1.0 rpms.  It did a sort of half-a$$ed
>    install (read that somethings installed and some didn't), 

To improve the packages it would be helpful to know where the packages
are from and what problems you actually encountered.

>    Everything I've read keeps coming back to build from the source, but to do
>    that, it appears that you cannot have installed PostgreSQL from a binary
>    rpm.  It seems that you have to have built PostgreSQL from a source rpm
>    because it appears that I have to unpack the tarball into a contrib source
>    tree.
>     
>    Is this true?

No. Since PostGIS 1.1.0 you only need the PostgreSQL development
packages and can run configure with the 

--with-pgsql=<FULL PATH to pg_config>

HTH

        Frank

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