[postgis-users] How to tell postgis configure to see different makefile, etc.

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:28:06AM -0400, John Zastrow wrote:
> I'm upgrading a ubuntu box from postgres/postgis installed through 
> apt-get, to those completely from stable sources.
> 
> So, I uninstalled packages, compiled postgres (9.0.3 + postgis 1.5.2), 
> ran it, compiled geos and proj - all with defaults. Now I'm compiling 
> postgis and I get this
> 
> configure: error: the PGXS Makefile 
> /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk cannot be found
> 
> I'm not sure where it's getting this from... I've found a newer makefile at
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk
> 
> which configure options do I pass to redirect configure to the correct 
> makefile? Is there anything else I need to convince postgis configure of 
> if I'm seeing this?

./configure will use `pg_config --pgxs`, check what it says.
You may have an old pg_config around, or you didn't re-run ./configure.

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