[El] New Install - And Errors

[Peter Hopfgartner]

--------Bill Thoen <bthoen at gisnet.com> wrote--------
Subject: Re: [El] New Install - And Errors
Date: 23.09.2010 23:42

>Mathieu Baudier wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>>   
>>> These are the switches I used when I built the original database:
>>> ./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/
>>>     
>>
>> The postgis spec file is here:
>>
>https://projects.argeo.org/elgis/svn/factory/trunk/rpmbuild/elgis/postgis/SPECS/postgis.spec
>>
>> The configure is at the line 78 and it doesn't indeed have many
>options:
>> %configure --with-gui
>>

In this case, I think that something like gtk+-devel should be in the "BuildRequires".

Short poll: is there any interest in building the GUI, which, if I'm right is the GUI for shp2pgsql, which is the shapefile loader of PostGIS. Should this be a separate package? Many people use PostgreSQL/PostGIS on servers without X, which would not be possible if we include Gtk+ as a dependency.

>> But my understanding is that the configure automatically finds its
>> dependencies (geos, proj, postgres) which are installed at standard
>> locations via RPMs (otherwise the build would not go very far I guess)
>>   
>PostGS would be pretty useless without PG and GEOS, and PG needs PROJ, 
>so it would make sense that these would be included as the default 
>setting. But the docs don't say. So I explicitly set them just to be on 
>the safe side. But I think you're right; PostGIS must be able to find 
>these packages, because if the RPM doesn't specify them, I'm sure you 
>would have by now if it couldn't find PG. So I think we're OK on that.

When running rpmbuild, something like

 -------------- Dependencies -------------- 
  GEOS config:          /usr/bin/geos-config
  GEOS version:         3.2.2
  PostgreSQL config:    /usr/bin/pg_config
  PostgreSQL version:   PostgreSQL 8.4.4
  PROJ4 version:        47
  Libxml2 config:       /usr/bin/xml2-config
  Libxml2 version:      2.6.26
  PostGIS debug level:  0

should appear on you terminal. rpmbuild should fail, if geos-devel or proj-devel are not already installed.

Peter
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>
>If that doesn't work, then I'll be back.
>
>Thanks Matthew!
>
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