Sorry, I solved it. Re: [postgis-users] no coveredby in liblwgeom.1.3.so

Steve Sweet sweet at sfos.uaf.edu
Fri Oct 5 17:37:35 PDT 2007


Sorry folks.  When I posted my question before I hadn't caught that the 
subject line had changed in the posting thread I referenced.  The 
original poster made a comment in the subsequent threat that clicked in 
my head and it appears I've fixed the problem.

It must be Friday afternoon ...

Steve Sweet wrote:
> I should have include my configure statement:
>
> ./configure --with-pgsql --with-geos --with-proj=/usr/local/proj
>
> Steve Sweet wrote:
>> I'm trying to build postgis-1.3.1 on a Centos 5.0 system (same as 
>> RedHat EL 5.0).  I built the prerequisite's immediately prior, 
>> including postgresql and when it comes to the step of applying 
>> lwpostgis.sql, I get exactly the same behavior referenced in this 
>> posting from August 17th 
>> (http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2007-August/016749.html) 
>> : the script runs fine until near the end when I get this message:
>> psql:lwpostgis.sql:4093: ERROR:  could not find function "coveredby" 
>> in file "/usr/lib/pgsql/liblwgeom.so.1.3"
>> Every transaction after that step fails.
>> The linker shows it knows of the library
>> [root at dev postgis-1.3.1]# /sbin/ldconfig -v | grep geom
>>        liblwgeom.so.1 -> liblwgeom.so.1.3
>> and since most of the script runs fine it seems that the library is 
>> being used.
>>
>> This is the first build on a virgin system so there are no previous 
>> library versions hanging around:
>> [root at dev pgsql]# ls -l liblwgeom*
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Oct  5 12:48 liblwgeom.so -> 
>> liblwgeom.so.1.3
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Oct  5 12:48 liblwgeom.so.1 -> 
>> liblwgeom.so.1.3
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 999008 Oct  5 12:48 liblwgeom.so.1.3
>>
>> and there is no "coveredby" or anything close in liblwgeom.so.1.3
>> [root at dev pgsql]# nm -o liblwgeom.so.1.3 | grep -i cover
>> [root at dev pgsql]#
>>
>> I'm stuck.  The answer in the previous thread was essentially "wait a 
>> bit then re-grab the source and try again" but that was quite some 
>> time ago.  Has any one experienced and overcome this?  Thanks.
>>
>> Steve
>>
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