[Mapserver-users] mapserver install on Mandrake 9

[Vincent Schut]

Mark,

you might also want to check the mapserverCompilation pages on the wiki: 
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MapServerCompilation. Especially 
the Redhat8&Mapserver37 pages contain a lot of info. A Mandrake 9 system is 
quite similar to Redhat linux.
Btw *don't* do 'make install' with mapserver. It installs the file libmap.a, 
which you don't need and don't want to be installed, because future 
compilations of mapserver will then wrongly be compiled using this old 
version of the mapserver library... If you already did, remove this libmap.a 
file from /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib, as it can only give you trouble. 
Instead of make install, just copy the mapserv binary to your cgi-bin dir, 
and eventually the php_mascript.so to your php extensions dir.
To do a new, clean build:
make distclean
./configure --with-your-options
make
copy mapserv xxxxxxx/cgi-bin

Regards,
Vincent Schut.

On Friday 28 March 2003 12:57, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Mark Balman wrote:
> > Can anyone provide a "simple" how to install mapserver onto Linux
> > Mandrake 9? I have my mapserver app working under Win 98 and would now
> > like to get mapserver working on Linux. As a complete newbie to linux I
> > had tried the quick and dirty method of ./configure followed by make and
> > make install but alas not happening.. I understand that I need to
> > reconfigure but I am clueless as to this process. Please help.
>
> Did you check out the Unix Build/Install HOWTO?
>
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc36/unix-install-howto.html
>
> Also there are a few sets of step by step instructions for installing
> PHP MapScript on various RedHat versions.  You could have a look at that
> as well, if you only need 'mapserv' then just ignore the PHP part, the
> base stuff is the same:
>
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PHPMapScript

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