[postgis-users] -- configure: error: PostgreSQL is required by PostGIS Installing PostGIS --

[Øyvind Vestavik]

hi Rafael

Unfortunately, I think your assumption here about where to place PostGis 
before compiling it is incorrect.

If you installed from RPM you probably don't have the source code for 
PGSQL wich is needed to compile postgis.

Go to the Postgresql website and download the source code. make sure it is
the same version that you installed from RPM (8.1), extract it to
somewhere (your home dir for instance) Now look into the newly created
directory structure. There you will find the correct directory structure
as described in the installation manual for postgis.

Put postgis into the contrib part of the downloaded source code, not into
the contrib created by installing the RPM package.

Now try again. :-)

Kind Regards
Oyvind Vestavik


On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Rafael Orta wrote:

> Hello Everybody
>
>  I installed PostgreSQL 8.1 on Red Hat Ent 4.0 and it seems to be working fine. I am proceding to install Postgis 1.1.3 from the .gz file following the instructions in the manual.
>
>  It says to uncompress and copy the posgis software on the [postgresql source tree]/contrib. To be honest I am not sure what is this directory, I installed from .rpm files , however I did a find on my disk looking for the contrib directory and found /usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib , so I assume that this is
>  the directory the installation manual refers to.
>
>  When I try to do the make file I get
>
>  [root at spatial postgis-1.1.3]# cp Makefile.config.in Makefile.config
> [root at spatial postgis-1.1.3]# make
> ./configure
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking for g++... g++
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking for iconv_open in -liconv... no
> checking for libiconv_open in -liconv... no
> checking for iconv_open in -lc... yes
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for egrep... grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking iconv.h usability... yes
> checking iconv.h presence... yes
> checking for iconv.h... yes
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for pg_config... no
> configure: error: PostgreSQL is required by PostGIS
> make: *** [config.status] Error 1
>
>  Any idea what could be wrong?
>
>  I couldn't install the postgress wxGTK-devel-2.6.3-2.6.3.2.1.i686.rpm because
>  of the error below and did not know where to get gtk2-devel-2.4.13-12.i386.rpm
> netiher if it is neccesary.
>
>  [root at spatial PgadminIII]# rpm -ihv wxGTK-devel-2.6.3-2.6.3.2.1.i686.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>        gtk2-devel is needed by wxGTK-devel-2.6.3-2.6.3.2.1.i686
>    Suggested resolutions:
>        gtk2-devel-2.4.13-12.i386.rpm
>
>  Thanks in advance
>
>  Rafael Orta
>
>
>
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