[postgis-devel] Installing PostGIS CVS

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, strk,

I just had my first try at installing current PostGIS CVS HEAD, this are
my experiences:

First, the following patch fixes the libgeos/Makefile on a fresh CVS checkout
where the eXecute permission bit is not set:

Index: lwgeom/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/postgis/postgis/lwgeom/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -r1.49 Makefile
--- lwgeom/Makefile     13 Dec 2004 13:04:41 -0000      1.49
+++ lwgeom/Makefile     17 Dec 2004 15:12:16 -0000
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
 #----------------------------------------------------------
 
 detect_geos_version: 
-       ../geos_version.sh $(GEOS_DIR) > postgis_geos_version.h
+       sh ../geos_version.sh $(GEOS_DIR) > postgis_geos_version.h
 
 installdirs:
        $(mkinstalldirs) $(libdir)


Then, after fixing my pathes in Makefile.config, compiling and make
install went fine, apart from loads of warnings. Most of them are tsort
complaining about loops.

But then, running the lwpostgis.sql fails with the following error:

psql:/usr/share/postgresql/lwpostgis.sql:432: ERROR:  could not find
function "LWGEOM_gist_joinsel" in file
"/usr/lib/postgresql/lib//liblwgeom.so.1.0"

It seems that LWGEOM_gist_joinsel currently is only implemented for pg8,
so current CVS does not work with postgis 7.4.

HTH,
Markus
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