[postgis-users] 1.3.4SVN Testers Wanted

[Paul Ramsey]

make clean ; make

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Chris Hermansen
<chris.hermansen at timberline.ca> 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?
>
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> 1.3.4 is very close to release, but we can release it faster, with
>> less intestinal distress, if we get some solid pre-release testing
>> from folks. You can download the current SVN version directly from the
>> downloads page, no SVN client required:
>>
>> http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.3.4SVN.tar.gz
>>
>> If you want to also try the latest preparedgeometry enhancements,
>> you'll need to upgrade your GEOS version to the SVN trunk before
>> compiling and installing1.3.4SVN,
>> http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-svn.tar.bz2
>>
>> Even if you don't, you should see some performance increases in 1.3.4,
>> particularly in point-and-polygon predicate tests, and large joins
>> using point-ant-polygon predicates.
>>
>> Let us know how it goes. We are particularly  interested in any
>> compilation difficulties or regression failures on less common unix
>> variants (Solaris on Sparc, AIX on Power, etc)
>>
>> Paul
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
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