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diff --git a/system/postgis/README b/system/postgis/README index 80eac03b71..0a7af70ec1 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. |