[geos-devel] GEOS on Solaris?!

[Paul Ramsey]

Sounds like trouble :) we'll take our Ultra10 out of mothballs and see 
if we get the same results. You can generate the build stuff by running 
the 'autogen.sh' script in the geos directory. Try that once (I doubt 
it's the problem, but never hurts).
P.

On Saturday, April 12, 2003, at 04:04 AM, Carsten Neumann wrote:

> Hello,
>
> for an univerity project I'm using the GEOS library to test 
> intersection of
> polygons given in WKT-strings. But - while everything aparently works 
> fine
> on my LINUX-PC at home - it fails on solaris (identified by 
> ./configure as
> "sparc-sun-solaris2.8" )
>
> Before compiling the sources I had to run these commands because 
> ./configure
> always stops in the directory source/examples (Makefile.in is missing) 
> - on
> both systems
>
> cd geos
> cp /usr/local/share/automake/depcomp .
> autoconf             (version 2.52)
> automake           (version 1.6.3)
>
> Then it compiles successfully with:
>
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/nexus
> gmake
> gmake install
>
> But then on the solaris system all the tests shipped with the sources 
> fail
> with "segmentation fault". Except - and that might provide some clues 
> - the
> SimpleWKTTester. It works just fine, if there are only POINTs and no
> complicated geometries (like Multipoint ..) in the WKTIn-File (so the
> compilation is correct?)
>
> Has anyone any ideas where the problem might be - are there bugs in the
> library that are only showing on solaris (because of stricter testing
> perhaps) - or are there mistakes in my configuration?
>
> I would be happy for any help, answers, suggestions ...
>
> Thanks ...
>
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> University of Stuttgart, Germany
>
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      Paul Ramsey
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