From 729e017b77fe03e16bb2a0416bd64756815aa441 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Trigona-Harany Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:19:14 +0100 Subject: 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 --- system/postgis/README | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'system/postgis/README') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3