[postgis-devel] Compiling PostGIS against PostgreSQL 8.4

[Jorge Arévalo]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:
> 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
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Hello,

I've just solved the problem by upgrading the old 8.3 cluster to the
new version (via pg_dropcluster and pg_upgradecluster), deleting the
postgresql-8.3 and postgresql-client-8.3 packages and re-building
PostGIS.

Thanks for your suggestion Mateusz!

Best regards,
Jorge