[postgis-users] Compiling PostGIS 1.4.0 release on Solaris 10

[Nathan Widmyer]

Ah, thank you for clearing that up.

I was going off of:
http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.4/ch02.html#id2531756
 which, respectively,
Which is how I've always built software, test before install, so I
didn't question the directions.

I understand not conflicting with a running PostgreSQL, but is there a
socket-only connection style like MySQL can do to connect to just that
specific instance?
I figured the tests were writing to a temp postgis.sql somewhere so it
wouldn't require installing into PostgreSQL, and something like a sed
or shell command wasn't working quite right.
There is a shell command to call "pushd" (regress/Makefile.in), which
doesn't exist in my user compiling PostGIS that uses bourne shell by
default (not bourne again shell), so I didn't know if there were other
things being called that don't exist on Solaris.

I just ran make check and it failed 5 out of 42 tests, so I'll take a
closer look at it.

Thanks again for letting me know, and I'll definitely put that down as
the thing to do.
Nate