[postgis-devel] Re: [postgis-users] installation problem

Greg Troxel gdt at ir.bbn.com
Fri May 11 06:33:00 PDT 2007


  Hmmm not sure why this is trying to write to /etc directly - it must be

I have had similar problems with files getting written in /etc during an
install under NetBSD and pkgsrc.  I haven't figured out what's going on.

The right fix may include using --sysconfdir to configure.   I'd argue
that by default the install should not write outside of $(prefix).



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