Make install failed without complaining on linux

[ehabets]

After configure, make and make install all seemed all right. But in fact, postgis.control were not copied in the postgres extension directory and CREATE EXTENSION postgis sql command failed.

Finally make check complained that xsltproc was missing. PostGIS installation succeeded after installing that package.

Shouldn't configure first complains and fails?

[robe]

It's not needed if you compile from tar ball since the comments.sql files it builds are packaged as part of the tar ball. Were you compiling from repo? If you were compiling from tar ball I'd consider it a more serious bug.

[dbaston]

Discussed w/pramsey: conclusion is that we shouldn't require xsltproc just to build PostGIS, since it's only required for the make check step.

[strk]

Isn't it needed to build comments, which are part of extension ?