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| author | Benjamin Trigona-Harany <bosth@alumni.sfu.ca> | 2012-12-28 09:19:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Matteo Bernardini <ponce@slackbuilds.org> | 2012-12-28 09:19:31 +0100 |
| commit | 729e017b77fe03e16bb2a0416bd64756815aa441 (patch) | |
| tree | 6dfb581fc3fd94dbb8d4d564750beb6024035442 /system/postgis/README | |
| parent | 5eb81f8ae1ee5cdd001c5bd3a0114b590f167026 (diff) | |
system/postgis: Added GUI component to build.
Added note to README about building JDBC driver,
fixed spelling (I am the one to blame for that ;P --ponce)
Signed-off-by: Matteo Bernardini <ponce@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'system/postgis/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | system/postgis/README | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/system/postgis/README b/system/postgis/README index 80eac03b71bb4..0a7af70ec13a8 100644 --- a/system/postgis/README +++ b/system/postgis/README @@ -2,9 +2,17 @@ PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems -(GIS), much like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension. +(GIS). To disable raster support and eliminate the gdal dependency, set RASTER=no. If you choose this path, be aware that postgis will still need the two dependencies that gdal -rely on, proj and geos. +relies on, proj and geos. + +To disable the GTK-based graphical interface for shp2pgsql, +set GUI=no. + +This SlackBuild does not build the PostGIS JDBC driver since +the build requires Apache Maven to download dependencies at +build time. The optional dependencies needed to build the +driver are: apache-ant, apache-maven, and postgres-jdbc. |