[geos-devel] Help with Compiling

[Steffen Macke]

Hi,

> I recently downloaded Geos Library and have installed the same on linux
> 8.0. However, I am having problems compiling the source examples.  I have
> followed all the instructions given in the install file: a) configured with
> env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure b) did a make

did you try only the following?

./configure
make
make install

What Linux are your running? Which compiler version are you using? You can get 
the version with the following command:

g++ -v

Steffen