[postgis-users] ST_AsKML changes in 1.3.3

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> > Thanks for the tips Mark. The funny thing about this specific problem
> > is that it occurred with a fresh install from the PostGIS website. I
> > was only able to 'discover' _STAsKML() but grepping through
> > lwpostgis.sql
> >
> > Ideas?
> >
> > Dylan
>
> Aha. A quick look at lwpostgis.sql.in shows that ST_AsKML() requires
> PROJ.4 in order to run. So it sounds as if configure didn't find it for
> some reason, either because it wasn't installed or your --with-proj
> argument was wrong.
>
> I think the minor bug here though is that _ST_AsKML() isn't included as
> part of the #ifdef section which is why only this function is visible.
> I'll go and fix this in 1.3 branch (trunk requires PROJ.4) - I wonder if
> it's worth a note in the 1.3 documentation that ST_AsKML() requires
> PROJ.4 support - Regina?
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Mark.

Hi Mark. Thanks for the updates. I have proj4 installed on this machine, 
however configure must have overlooked it. I will try re-compiling and 
manually specifying the location of proj.

Cheers,

Dylan

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