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<BODY bgColor=#ffffff><FONT face=Arial size=2> am a new user trying to
install postgis 0.7.4</FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>under postgres 7.3.1 (Mandrake Linux
9.0)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I run the make command I recieve the
following</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>message:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="mailto:root@desktop">root@desktop</A> postgis]# make<BR>make -C
loader<BR>make[1]: Entering directory
`/root/tmp/postgresql-7.3.1/contrib/postgis/loader'<BR>gcc -O2 -Wall
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations shpopen.o dbfopen.o getopt.o
shp2pgsql.o -L../../../src/interfaces/libpq -lpq
-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/pgsql/lib/contrib -lcrypt -lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm
-lbsd -o shp2pgsql <BR>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpq<BR>collect2: ld
returned 1 exit status<BR>make[1]: *** [shp2pgsql] Error 1<BR>make[1]: Leaving
directory `/root/tmp/postgresql-7.3.1/contrib/postgis/loader'<BR>make: ***
[loaderdumper] Error 2<BR></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any solutions would be worthful</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in advance </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anthimos Zachariadis</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>University of Macedonia - Greece</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="mailto:azaxar@the.forthnet.gr">azaxar@the.forthnet.gr</A></FONT></DIV>
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