[postgis-devel] Compiling PostGIS against PostgreSQL 8.4

Mateusz Loskot mateusz at loskot.net
Sat Nov 7 11:33:10 PST 2009


Jorge Arévalo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've recently updated from Postgresql 8.3 to 8.4, due to an update on
> Ubuntu (from 9.04 to 9.10). When trying to create new spatial
> databases, by executing postgis.sql, I get an error because
> LWGEOM_samebox is not found in library object. The problem is
> postgis.sql is looking for this function in the old library object,
> this is /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/lib/postgis-1.5.so, instead on
> /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/postgis-1.5.so
> 
> When I run ./configure, I get 8.4 as PostgreSQL version, but I don't
> know how to avoid the linking against the old library object.
> 
> How should I do it?

Check if PostgreSQL 8.3 related packages (including the one that
installs pg_config) have been removed?
I found that after upgrade form 9.04 to 9.10 I had to do manual
cleanup to get rid of of all packages related to PostgreSQL 8.3

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org



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