[postgis-devel] Cannot autoconf postgis from SVN

[Müller Kirill]

Hello,

I just spent a couple of hours trying to install PostGIS directly from SVN, on an up-to-date Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid). Here is what I did:

- Install postgis prerequisites from Ubuntu archives
- Checkout postgis from SVN (branches/1.5 and trunk, same problem)
- Run aclocal from checkout directory
- Run autoconf from checkout directory

Resulting output:

configure.ac:543: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROJ_VERSION
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

Running ./configure afterwards did not succeed.

I am new to autoconf, so I was unable to further investigate this message.

Below is the output of apt-cache policy.

Thank you for your help.


Best regards,

Kirill


muelleki at sparrow:~/postgis-1.5/ > apt-cache policy libproj-dev libgeos-dev libxml2-dev
libproj-dev:
  Installed: 4.7.0-2~lucid1
  Candidate: 4.7.0-2~lucid1
  Version table:
 *** 4.7.0-2~lucid1 0
        600 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.7.0-1 0
        600 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
libgeos-dev:
  Installed: 3.2.2-2~lucid1
  Candidate: 3.2.2-2~lucid1
  Version table:
 *** 3.2.2-2~lucid1 0
        600 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.1.0-1 0
        600 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
libxml2-dev:
  Installed: 2.7.6.dfsg-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.7.6.dfsg-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.7.6.dfsg-1ubuntu1 0
        600 http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status