[Slackbuilds-users] Saga-gis: cannot find wxcrtvararg.h

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, B Watson wrote:

> Since I don't use saga-gis, or even have a very clear idea what it does, I
> have to ask... is it even useful to build saga-gis without postgresql
> support? Is that a rarely-used feature, or is it something that would
> basically cripple saga-gis if it were missing?

B,

I have postgres installed; it'a always been my default RDBMS and is used
constantly.

SAGA is a raster-based GIS developed by physical geographers that focuses on
terrain analyses. It complements GRASS and offers some different models so
it's good to have available.

> Reason I ask is, the dead simple way to fix this would be to add
> postgresql to REQUIRES in the .info file. But if most users aren't likely
> to need the postgresql support, it'd be better to leave it optional and
> fix the script so it works without it.

I've not thought about it because I've not used SAGA extensively, but I do
keep GRASS data in postgres databases and since the two tools can interact I
suppose SAGA looks for data in a postgres database if it's not in the
default GRASS sqlite3 database.

Perhaps postgres could be listed as an optional dependency?

Regards,

Rich