[postgis-users] Help urgently needed - geomfromEWKT() / PostGIS on Mac OS X

[Blair Zajac]

Christian Heine wrote:
> Dear list,
> I've been battling with major problems installing PostGIS-1.1.1 over  
> the recent days and I am not sure what do anymore. Maybe it's the  
> blindness of having to fix this asap with pressing last weeks of a  PhD 
> in the back, maybe some technical stuff. Definitely I need some  
> external comments on my attempts from you experts.
> 
> I had a well working system on a Dual G5 with Mac OS X 10.4 mid -last  
> year with Postgresql 8.0.3/PostGIS 1.0.0 (I think it was 1.0.0-rc)  
> after trying to upgrade it to PostGIS 1.1.1 the geomfromEWKT   function 
> doesn't seem to be working anymore - I can't use the  geomfromEWKT() 
> function anymore, which I used extensively in  PostGIS-1.0.0 (This is 
> both on a Dual G5 PowerMac and a G4 Powerbook  with the inital same 
> setting).
> 
> After trying to figure out the cause of the problem (see the libgeom*  
> messages earlier on this list between a very responsive an helpful  strk 
> and me) I decided to wipe the whole system and revert to my old  setting 
> with geos 2.1.1, proj-4.4.9, postgresql-8.0.3 and  postgis-1.0.0(?rc) 
> even this doesn't work - even the installation  with W. Kingesburye's 
> pre-compiled pgsql-8.1.2/p-gis-1.1.1  (www.kyngchaos.com) doesn't work 
> (getting the geomfromewkt() doesn't  exist message , see below).

Why don't you use use Fink's or DarwinPort's Postgresql/Postgis builds instead?

The Fink postgresql81 package includes Postgis, and DarwinPorts' has a separate 
postgis package.

Regards,
Blair

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