[postgis-users]

[Paul Ramsey]

What is your platform? I compiled 0.7.4 on Linux against 7.3.2 and had 
no compilation problems at all.

Barbara Olga Kastelliz wrote:
> hi everybody,
> 
> i have tried to install postgis-0.7.4 with postgresql-7.3.1, but unfortunately
> wasn't able to complete the installation.
> i had to make changes in the postgis makefile:, without these changes i was
> not able to do make, but have no idea if this changes are resulting in
> conflicts and are the reason i have not succeeded so far:
> 
> changes in makefile:
> 
> .....
> # Select proper GiST support C file
> #
> ifeq ($(USE_VERSION),71) 
> 	GIST_SUPPORT=71
> 	GIST_ESTIMATE=
> else
> 	GIST_SUPPORT=72
> #	GIST_ESTIMATE=postgis_estimate.o
> 	GIST_ESTIMATE=
> endif
> 
> (before I had changed cost.h, but it did not make any differenc)
> 
> ........
> #---------------------------------------------------------------
> # Add libraries that libpq depends (or might depend) on into the
> # shared library link.  (The order in which you list them here doesn't
> # matter.)
> ....
> #here i added the next line:
> 
> SHLIB_LINK := $(LDFLAGS) ../../src/backend/libpostgres.a
> 
> #---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> before these changes make didn't find libpostgres.a, 
> 
> when i try to load the postgis.sql file, i receive the following
> messages among many others,
> ....
> NOTICE Procedure Create: type box3d is not yet defined
> CREATE FUNCTION
> Notice Argument type "box3d" is only a shell
> ....
> ERROR: current ransaction is aborted,...
> 
> 
> also I had to change in postgis.sql $libdir to the absolut path to the
> postgis.dll file.
> 
> Does the installation not work because of postgresql, perhaps i' have not
> compiled it properly?, or because of the makefile for postgis?
> do i still have to add the patches gcc2 an gcc3 to postgresql7.3.1?
> 
> hope that somebody can help, many thanks in advance,
> greetings, barbara kastelliz
> 

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