[geos-devel] Problem with building 3.0.0rc

[Sean Gillies]

I'm encountering a problem with the 3.0 release candidate that blocks a
build on my Ubuntu 6.10 i686.

"configure --prefix=/tmp; make; make install" bails out here:

...
Making install in swig
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/geos-3.0.0rc5/swig'
Making install in python
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/geos-3.0.0rc5/swig/python'
Making install in tests
make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/geos-3.0.0rc5/swig/python/tests'
make[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/geos-3.0.0rc5/swig/python/tests'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/geos-3.0.0rc5/swig/python/tests'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/geos-3.0.0rc5/swig/python/tests'
make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/geos-3.0.0rc5/swig/python'
make[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/geos-3.0.0rc5/swig/python'
/bin/bash ../../mkinstalldirs
/bin/bash ../../mkinstalldirs
shift: 49: can't shift that many
make[4]: *** [install-pkgpythonPYTHON] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/geos-3.0.0rc5/swig/python'
make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/geos-3.0.0rc5/swig/python'
make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/geos-3.0.0rc5/swig/python'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/geos-3.0.0rc5/swig'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

I don't understand why the install-pkgpythonPYTHON target is attempted
when I haven't enabled the swig python bindings. Any idea what's up here?

Sean