[postgis-devel] 1.4.1rc1

[Greg Troxel]

Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> writes:

> Greg Troxel wrote:
>
>> I built this on an Intel Mac, 10.5.8, via pkgsrc (I am resurrecting the
>> postgis pkg) against postgresql 8.4.  There were various troubles
>> installing the postgis shared library (.dylib), plus a complain about
>> lwgeom static lib being included in a dynamic library.  After working
>> around things by hand I got it to build and pass make check.
>>
>> I have a longer note being composed about the details, but I wanted to
>> mention that there seem to be issues on mac, and to ask if others have
>> been successful building on macs.  Aside from the mixing of .a/.so which
>> seems nonportable, I think all my troubles are about mac shared
>> libraries and pgxs support of those shlibs.
>
> I suspect you are seeing similar issues here that we see with several
> of the Solaris packages in that several of the pre-built packages have
> incorrect PGXS makefiles. Typically we see that the packagers point to
> non-existent locations for certain headers/libraries and even the
> compiler themselves, since the location of various tools on the
> packager's machine don't always match the locations provided by the
> other real packages.

In my case, the pgsql package was built on the same machine, but pkgsrc
goes to great lengths to isolate builds from exactly this problem,
symlinking in to a 'buildlink' tree headers/libs/tools from exactly
those packages that are declared as dependencies.  So I may have a
reference to the pgsql buildlink dir still lurking in an installed file.
I'll go over that more carefully.
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