[postgis-users] 1.3.0 comments from a packaging perspective

[Greg Troxel]

I am in the midst of updating the postgis package in pkgsrc to 1.3.1.

templategis has been removed from the build/install targets (r2652) I
found no NEWS entry about this, or anything in the README.  As a
packager, should I take this as a hint that templategis is deprecated,
and binary packages should not include it?  This seems worthy of NEWS as
a user-visible change in what is installed.

I build with -j4 on a dual-processor system (NetBSD/i386, Thinkpad T60).
The build failed, and restarting it got:

===> Building for postgresql81-postgis-1.3.1
Using GNU make found at /usr/home/gdt/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/geography/postgresql81-postgis/work/.tools/bin/gmake
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/home/gdt/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/geography/postgresql81-postgis/work/postgis-1.3.1'
/usr/home/gdt/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/geography/postgresql81-postgis/work/.tools/bin/gmake -C lwgeom 
gmake[1]: *** read jobs pipe: No such file or directory.  Stop.
gmake[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/home/gdt/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/geography/postgresql81-postgis/work/postgis-1.3.1/lwgeom'
gmake[2]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1.  Add `+' to parent make rule.
gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/gdt/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/geography/postgresql81-postgis/work/postgis-1.3.1/lwgeom'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/gdt/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/geography/postgresql81-postgis/work/postgis-1.3.1'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2
*** Error code 2

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/home/gdt/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/geography/postgresql81-postgis
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/geography/postgresql81-postgis

There are some warnings (full logs on request):

lex.yy.c:4023: warning: 'yyunput' defined but not used
/usr/home/gdt/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/geography/postgresql81-postgis/work/.buildlink/include/geos_c.h:287: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
/usr/home/gdt/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/geography/postgresql81-postgis/work/.buildlink/include/geos_c.h:297: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
/usr/home/gdt/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/geography/postgresql81-postgis/work/.buildlink/include/geos_c.h:304: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
/usr/home/gdt/NetBSD-current/pkgsrc/geography/postgresql81-postgis/work/.buildlink/include/geos_c.h:313: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type
lwgeom_estimate.c:164: warning: array subscript has type 'char'
shpopen.c:176: warning: 'rcsid' defined but not used
dbfopen.c:1508: warning: array subscript has type 'char'
dbfopen.c:1508: warning: array subscript has type 'char'
dbfopen.c:206: warning: 'rcsid' defined but not used
shp2pgsql.c:445: warning: array subscript has type 'char'
shp2pgsql.c:1742: warning: passing argument 2 of 'iconv' from incompatible pointer type
pgsql2shp.c:2620: warning: array subscript has type 'char'
pgsql2shp.c:3337: warning: array subscript has type 'char'