[postgis-users] newbie GEOS install problem

[strk at refractions.net]

It seems a problem with libtool to me.
It doesn't have to do with the already installed PostGIS.

Actually, GEOS has nothing to do with postgis, it's the other
way around (so you should build PostGIS *after* GEOS to get its
functionalities in the database).

This discussion is better done on geos-devel mailing list, I
add it to the reply-to field (hopefully mailman won't replace it)

--strk;


On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:17:43PM +0100, Leif Isaksen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm trying to install GEOS on Suse 10.0 (64-bit) having already installed PostGIS. I'm having the following problem - ./configure runs OK, but the make command doesn't generate a proper libgeos.so file under source/geom/.libs (or rather it's a link to libgeos.so.2.2.3 which doesn't exist) leading to the following output:
> 
> Making all in bigtest
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/geos-2.2.3/source/bigtest'
> /bin/sh ../..//libtool --mode=link --tag=CXX g++  -g -O2   -o TestSweepLineSpeed  TestSweepLineSpeed.o GeometryTestFactory.o ../..//source/geom/libgeos.la ../..//source/geom/libgeos.la
> g++ -g -O2 -o .libs/TestSweepLineSpeed TestSweepLineSpeed.o GeometryTestFactory.o  ../..//source/geom/.libs/libgeos.so
> g++: ../..//source/geom/.libs/libgeos.so: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [TestSweepLineSpeed] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/geos-2.2.3/source/bigtest'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/geos-2.2.3/source'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> leifsvm:/usr/local/geos-2.2.3 #
> 
> Is this because I already have PostGIS installed (and indeed, is it possible to install GEOS post-PostGIS)? I've tried to hunt down an RPM, as suggested on another email on the geos-devel mailing list, but there isn't one for Suse and the Fedora Core version seems to be a complete postGIS/GEOS package. I'm a little reluctant to reinstall PostGIS as I already have data stored in it, but will do so if necessary. Any help or suggestions on this issue would be gratefully received.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Leif
> 
> 
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