[geos-devel] Compiling troubles

Meek, Allan (Contractor) Allan.Meek at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Jan 2 16:48:35 EST 2008


I just gave that a try, but the end result is the same. Incidentally,
the "make install" process doesn't have any problem making the include,
include/geos, or the include/geos/algorithm directories.

--Allan.


-----Original Message-----
From: geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
Sent: January 2, 2008 4:42 PM
To: GEOS Development List
Subject: Re: [geos-devel] Compiling troubles

You might have to pre-make the target directories...

mkdir $INSTALL/bin
mkdir $INSTALL/lib
mkdir $INSTALL/include

P.

On 2-Jan-08, at 1:33 PM, Meek, Allan (Contractor) wrote:

> Hi Mateusz,
>
> Whoops. My configure line was actually "./configure --prefix=$ 
> {INSTALL}"
> so that things would be installed in /rde/ameek/GEOS/binlin. So, I
> wouldn't need sudo to run "make install".
>
> I think my biggest question is this: What does Error 126 mean?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Allan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mateusz  
> Loskot
> Sent: January 2, 2008 4:30 PM
> To: GEOS Development List
> Subject: Re: [geos-devel] Compiling troubles
>
> Meek, Allan (Contractor) wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just downloaded geos-3.0.0.tar.bz2 today and tried to compile it in
>> Red Hat Linux, but I have encountered some troubles.
>>
>> Here are the steps I followed:
>>
>> - extracted the contents of the tar file to /rde/ameek/GEOS/ 
>> geos-3.0.0
>> - set the INSTALL environmental variable to /rde/ameek/GEOS/binlin
>> - created the directory /rde/ameek/GEOS/binlin
>> - from the geos-3.0.0 directory, executed "./configure
>> --prefix=${INSTALL}"
>> - executed "make"; everything looked good
>> - executed "make check"; everything looked good
>> - executed "make install"; I ended up with the following error
> messages:
>> [...]
>
>
> Allan,
>
> Shouldn't the last command read:
>
> sudo make install
>
> unless you have sufficient privs to write to prefix location?
>
> I just tested GEOS from SVN and make install command works perfectly
> well for me. I assume both SVN and 3.0.0 makefiles are correct.
>
> Cheers
> -- 
> Mateusz Loskot
> http://mateusz.loskot.net
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