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<div align="left">Reid </div>
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<div align="left">Little off topic. </div>
<div align="left">Have you successed in compiling geos 3.0 or higher in Hardy. I remember I had big problems with that when I first wanted to test 1.4</div>
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<div align="left">/Nicklas</div>
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2009-12-02 Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:<br />
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Reid Priedhorsky wrote:<br />
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>Hi Reid,<br />
><br />
>> I should have clarified. We are using the system Postgres and installing <br />
>> PostGIS and GEOS ourselves. In the past (1.3.5), we just compiled <br />
>> PostGIS with --prefix, --with-geos, and --with-pgsql* and it worked <br />
>> great, just like any other GNU-style "configure" software. Now... ????<br />
>> <br />
>> (As an aside, it was also very frustrating that --prefix was silently <br />
>> ignored instead of failing at configure time with a coherent error <br />
>> message. We spent over an hour tracking that down.)<br />
><br />
>Thanks for the extra information.<br />
><br />
>> We're on Ubuntu Hardy.<br />
>> <br />
>> * --with-pgsql was needed because we are on Postgres 8.2 but some of the <br />
>> 8.3 stuff is also installed because of unrelated dependencies. But in <br />
>> 1.4, install wants to put stuff in the 8.3 directories even though <br />
>> configure apparently found 8.2 with --with-pgconfig. So I don't see how <br />
>> we can install 1.4 even if we did have root.<br />
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>This sounds like the real problem here. I believe there is a bug in <br />
>PostgreSQL 8.2's PGXS Makefile which means that it can pick the wrong <br />
>pg_config if you have multiple versions in PATH. The quick fix is to <br />
>temporarily override PATH when running "make" on PostGIS so that the <br />
>directory containing the pg_config you really want to use is listed <br />
>first like this:<br />
><br />
>PATH=/path/to/8.2/install:$PATH make install<br />
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>HTH,<br />
><br />
>Mark.<br />
><br />
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