[geos-devel] How to install GEOS with gcc-2.69?

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Fri Feb 13 10:26:42 EST 2004


Roy, download the RPMs from postgis.refractions.net/rpms
If you do not feel comfortable with compiling, that is by far the best 
bet.
P.

On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 11:51 PM, Roy Irwan wrote:

> Hi, I just downloaded geos tar.gz file and I want to install it into my
> RedHat 7.3 box with gcc-2.96.
> Anybody kindly can give me step by step instructions to do that? Poor 
> me,
> because I don't really familiar with development environment in Linux 
> box.
> But, I do really need geos. :(
>
> I have tried these steps:
> #aclocal (w/o arguments)
> #automake (w/o arguments)
> #autoconf (w/o arguments)
> #libtool (I'm stuck here.. because I don't know what should I give to 
> it as
> arguments)
>
> I try to skip the libtool step and run ./configure and I got this 
> error.
> Unfortunately, I absolutely don't understand what the error try to 
> tell me.
> :(
>
> <...deleted...>
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
> checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
> checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... 
> yes
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build static libraries... yes
> checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
> creating libtool
> ./configure: line 8145: syntax error near unexpected token
> `PGAC_TYPE_64BIT_INT(
> long'
> ./configure: line 8145: `PGAC_TYPE_64BIT_INT(long int)'
>
> I have:
> gcc-2.96-110
> automake-1.6.3-5
> autoconf-2.57-3
> libtool-1.4.2-7
>
> I try not to upgrade my RedHat because of hardware limitation and a 
> lot of
> softwares and data stored in it. :(
>
> TIA,
> Roy Irwan
>
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      Paul Ramsey
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