[postgis-users] Failing make check tests

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 18:31 +1300, Stephen Souness wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have just set up a server (32 bit Debian Linux) with Postgresql 8.2, 
> GEOS 2.2.3 and PostGIS 1.2.0
> 
> When I run:
> make check
> 
> there are several errors reported, which I suspect may prevent my 
> application from being able to make use of the functionality that I am 
> trying to obtain.
> 
> Can anyone offer some suggestions as to where I may have gone wrong?
> 
> Here is the output that make check produced:
> 
> 
> make -C regress test
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/postgis-1.2.0/regress'
> Creating spatial db postgis_reg
> TMPDIR is /tmp/pgis_reg_8295
> 
> PostgreSQL 8.2.0 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 
> (Debian
> 1:3.3.5-13)
> Postgis 1.2.0 - 2006-12-11 05:15:48
>     GEOS: 2.2.3-CAPI-1.1.1
> 
> Running tests
> 
> loader/Point....... failed (dumping loaded table: 
> /tmp/pgis_reg_8295/dumper.err
> )
> loader/PointM....... failed (dumping loaded table: 
> /tmp/pgis_reg_8295/dumper.er
> r)
> loader/PointZ....... failed (dumping loaded table: 
> /tmp/pgis_reg_8295/dumper.er
> r)
> loader/MultiPoint....... failed (dumping loaded table: 
> /tmp/pgis_reg_8295/dumpe
> r.err)
> loader/MultiPointM....... failed (dumping loaded table: 
> /tmp/pgis_reg_8295/dump
> er.err)
> loader/MultiPointZ....... failed (dumping loaded table: 
> /tmp/pgis_reg_8295/dump
> er.err)
> loader/Arc....... failed (dumping loaded table: 
> /tmp/pgis_reg_8295/dumper.err)
> loader/ArcM....... failed (dumping loaded table: 
> /tmp/pgis_reg_8295/dumper.err)
> loader/ArcZ..... failed (dumping loaded table: 
> /tmp/pgis_reg_8295/dumper.err)
> loader/Polygon....... failed (dumping loaded table: 
> /tmp/pgis_reg_8295/dumper.e
> rr)
> loader/PolygonM....... failed (dumping loaded table: 
> /tmp/pgis_reg_8295/dumper.
> err)
> loader/PolygonZ....... failed (dumping loaded table: 
> /tmp/pgis_reg_8295/dumper.
> err)
> regress. ok
> regress_index. ok
> lwgeom_regress. ok
> regress_lrs. ok
> removepoint. ok
> setpoint. ok
> simplify. ok
> snaptogrid. ok
> affine. ok
> wkt. ok
> measures. ok
> long_xact. ok
> ctors. ok
> sql-mm-serialize. ok
> regress_ogc. ok
> regress_bdpoly. ok
> 
> Run tests: 28
> Failed: 12
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/postgis-1.2.0/regress'


Hi Stephen,

What does the log file /tmp/pgis_reg_8295/dumper.err show? Chances are
that it could be either a problem with the path, or a problem with the
loader not being to find libpq.


Kind regards,

Mark.