[postgis-users] postgis install on solaris

[Greg Troxel]

> Hello,I am installing PostGIS 1.5 on a solaris 10 machine.  In the
> documentation to install PostGIS it says"A complete installation of
> PostgreSQL (including server headers) is required. PostgreSQL is
> available from http://www.postgresql.org/. "  When I installed
> postgresql initially I used pre-built binaries that I downloaded from
> postgresql.org.  Is this considered "complete installation" or do I
> need to get the postgresql source code in order to install postGIS.

What you really need are the headers and pgxs makefiles.  Depending on
the packaging system, they may or may not be present.

pkgsrc (www.pkgsrc.org) runs on solaris, and (on NetBSD) postgresql
built from pkgsrc is adequate to build postgis (and postgis is
packaged).
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