[postgis-users] Troubles installing Postgis

[Vinko Vrsalovic]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:12:15AM -0500, fernando Talledo Bellina wrote:
> Hi there:
> 
> I have some troubles , I am following all the rules that there are in the 
> web.
> I have already installed postgresql7.4 and it works I put it in the root.
> then i download the postgis-0.7.4 and saved it in the contrib directory, 
> after that I unzziped the information
> i wrote the command "make", but when i do that I have the next message:
> [root at gis001 postgis-0.7.4]# make
> gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes 
> -Wmissing-declarations -fpic -g -I. -I../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE  
> -DFRONTEND -DSYSCONFDIR='"/usr/local/pgsql/etc"' -DUSE_VERSION=73  -c -o 
> postgis_estimate.o postgis_estimate.c
> postgis_estimate.c: In function `get_restriction_var':
> postgis_estimate.c:543: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
> postgis_estimate.c:545: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
> postgis_estimate.c: In function `genericcostestimate2':
> postgis_estimate.c:752: structure has no member named `elem'
> postgis_estimate.c:752: too few arguments to function 
> `clauselist_selectivity'
> postgis_estimate.c:810: warning: passing arg 1 of `cost_qual_eval' from 
> incompatible pointer type
> postgis_estimate.c:810: too few arguments to function `cost_qual_eval'
> postgis_estimate.c:810: void value not ignored as it ought to be
> make: *** [postgis_estimate.o] Error 1
> 
> what do you recommend?
> I haven't done any modification to the make file.

I'd try getting the latest postgis, or at least 0.7.5, and adjust the
Makefile according to your configuration. IIRC, 0.7.4 didn't work on
postgresql 7.4

(I'd really get the cvs version and use geos too)

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