[geos-devel] Compiling troubles

[Mateusz Loskot]

Meek, Allan (Contractor) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just downloaded geos-3.0.0.tar.bz2 today and tried to compile it in
> Red Hat Linux, but I have encountered some troubles.
> 
> Here are the steps I followed:
> 
> - extracted the contents of the tar file to /rde/ameek/GEOS/geos-3.0.0
> - set the INSTALL environmental variable to /rde/ameek/GEOS/binlin
> - created the directory /rde/ameek/GEOS/binlin
> - from the geos-3.0.0 directory, executed "./configure
> --prefix=${INSTALL}"
> - executed "make"; everything looked good
> - executed "make check"; everything looked good
> - executed "make install"; I ended up with the following error messages:
> [...]


Allan,

Shouldn't the last command read:

sudo make install

unless you have sufficient privs to write to prefix location?

I just tested GEOS from SVN and make install command works perfectly
well for me. I assume both SVN and 3.0.0 makefiles are correct.

Cheers
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net