[postgis-users] 1.3.4SVN Testers Wanted

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Chris Hermansen wrote:
> I'm a willing 1.3.4 tester in principle, but the weakness of the flesh
> is upon me :-(
> 
> I have Ubuntu 8.04 running on my machine, all patched up.  Included is
> PostgreSQL 8.3 from the repositories (server development files included)
> and PostGIS1.3.3 also from the repositories.
> 
> I downloaded the two tar files below.  GEOS went in fine, including make
> test.
> 
> Before building the PostGIS, I did an apt-get build-dep postgis and a
> few things came down from the repositories.
> 
> OK, so here I am in the postgis1.3svn directory.
> 
> ./configure runs very very quickly, with only one warning message:
> 
> checking which template to use... linux
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile.config
> config.status: WARNING:  Makefile.config.in seems to ignore the
> --datarootdir setting
> config.status: creating config.h
> config.status: config.h is unchanged
> 
> and then gives a status:
> 
>  SUMMARY
>  -------------------------------------------------------
>  
>  HOST_OS: linux-gnu
>  
>    PGSQL: /usr/bin/pg_config
>     GEOS: /usr/local/bin/geos-config (with C-API)
>           (ldflags: -L/usr/local/lib)
>     PROJ: prefix=/usr libdir=/usr/lib
>    ICONV: 1
>  
>  PORTNAME: linux
>    PREFIX: /usr
>   EPREFIX: ${prefix}
>       DOC: /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc-8.3/contrib
>      DATA: ${datarootdir}
>       MAN: ${datarootdir}/man
>       BIN: /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin
>       EXT: /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/lib (\$$libdir)
>  -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> make runs even more quickly, here's the sum total:
> 
> clh at TNRG048:~/src/postgis-1.3.svn$ make
> make -C lwgeom
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/clh/src/postgis-1.3.svn/lwgeom'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/clh/src/postgis-1.3.svn/lwgeom'
> make -C loader
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/clh/src/postgis-1.3.svn/loader'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/clh/src/postgis-1.3.svn/loader'
> make -C utils
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/clh/src/postgis-1.3.svn/utils'
> chmod +x postgis_restore.pl create_undef.pl postgis_proc_upgrade.pl
> profile_intersects.pl test_estimation.pl test_joinestimation.pl
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/clh/src/postgis-1.3.svn/utils'
> clh at TNRG048:~/src/postgis-1.3.svn$
> 
> Not much to test there :-(
> 
> Any ideas?


Hi Chris,

Since the tarball is generated after the SVN test build, you need to do 
"make clean" before "configure" and "make" to force a rebuild of the 
source tree.


HTH,

Mark.

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