[postgis-users] RE: Compile Problem with postgis (from Mark Cave-Ayland)

[Oli Young]

>> [root at mojave][/usr/src/postgresql-7.4.3/build-tree/postgresql-7.4.3/
>> contrib/postgis-0.7.5][0]: make
>> i386-linux-gcc -DCHECK_RLIMIT_NOFILE -fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wall
>> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -pipe -fPIC -g -I.
>> -I../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE  -I/usr/include/tcl8.4 -DFRONTEND
>> -DSYSCONFDIR='"/usr/etc/postgresql"' -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: error: structure has no member named `elem'
>> postgis_estimate.c:752: error: 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: error: too few arguments to function
>> `cost_qual_eval'
>> postgis_estimate.c:810: error: void value not ignored as it
>> ought to be
>> make: *** [postgis_estimate.o] Error 1
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Oli

> 0.7.3 is quite an old release. Do you still have the same problem if 
> you
> download and install the latest 0.8.2 release?

I tried 0.8.2 first, and had the same problem, so i rolled back to the 
version mentioned in that walk through ..