[postgis-users] Problems compiling Postgis from source in Ubuntu 9.10

[Roger André]

Ok, cleaned all of the Ubuntu-installed junk out and reinstalled from source
into /usr/local with:

 $ sudo ./configure --with-geosconfig=/usr/local/bin/geos-config
--with-projdir=/usr/local --with-pgconfig=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config

Ran "make" and "make install" with no problems and everything looks good
now.

That bogus pg_config was the source of my grief, so thanks again for the
help.

Roger
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Roger André <randre at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> I see from the Changelog that you committed many of the pgxs updates, so
> thanks for the response.  A couple points I'd like to clarify.
>
> 1. I have not installed ANY Postgresql code from aptitude, nor do I wish
> to.  Everything is fresh source code installed under /usr/local, and I would
> very much like to keep it that way.  You're right that there is another
> pg_config in /usr/bin/pg_config though, but I have no idea how it got
> there.  It's also strange that when I go through the locations specified by
> /usr/bin/pg_config, only some of them exist.  Looks like some sort of
> partial install, or something.  aptitude also has no record of installing
> any postgres* package, so not sure how it got there.
>
> 2. Totally willing to grant you that my configure options might be
> incorrect for PostGIS 1.4. I didn't realize they had changed from 1.3 to
> 1.4.  I'll have a closer look at the ./configure --help output to make sure
> I specify them correctly.   Would help if I pointed to the right pg_config.
> ;)
>
> 3. I am going to clean out all traces of the Ubuntu package on the system,
> and then will see if I can get the source to compile properly.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Roger
> --
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland <
> mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Roger André wrote:
>>
>>  - I got the following error when I ran configure:
>>> $ sudo ./configure --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config
>>> --with-geos=/usr/local/bin/geos-config --with-proj=/usr/local/
>>> --with-proj-libdir=/usr/local/lib
>>>
>>> configure: error: the PGXS Makefile
>>> /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk <http://pgxs.mk>
>>> cannot be found. Please install the PostgreSQL server development packages
>>> and re-run configure.
>>>
>>
>> It looks as if you have multiple copies of PostgreSQL installed on your
>> computer one in /usr/local and one in /usr, i.e. you have installed one from
>> packages using aptitude and compiled another one by hand. You are also using
>> the wrong --with arguments from the 1.3 release that don't work with PostGIS
>> 1.4.
>>
>> Karmic Koala already comes with PostgreSQL 8.4 so you should "make
>> uninstall" in your hand-compiled source tree to remove all traces of it from
>> /usr/local. Then install the postgresql-server-dev-8.4 package and re-run
>> configure like this:
>>
>> $ sudo ./configure --with-geosconfig=/usr/local/bin/geos-config
>> --with-projdir=/usr/local
>>
>> I really am tempted to come up with a fix for this brain-dead piece of
>> Debian packaging as it seems to catch a lot of people out...
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>> --
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