Extensions not always built when they should be

[Mike Taves]

On test builds of beta4 on Ubuntu 11.10 with different packages and configure options, the extensions are not always automatically built. However, these can be manually built, by cding into extensions and make, sudo make install.

configure.ac requires all of these to automatically include EXTENSIONS (in pseudo logic):

=91 AND xsltproc AND raster AND topology.

http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/browser/trunk/configure.ac#L1053

However there are certain exceptions that EXTENSIONS should be included, listed here:

• topology is not required to build the postgis extension, so should be ignored; only raster is required
• tagged releases include the three doc/*_commets.sql files, so xsltproc is not required

Here is some suggested pseudo logic to add EXTENSIONS:

=91 AND raster AND

(xsltproc OR

(doc/postgis_comments.sql exists AND doc/raster_comments.sql exists AND doc/topology_comments.sql exists)

)

[strk]

Done with r9569