[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #1868: Documentation Error

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#1868: Documentation Error
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 Reporter:  hughpearse                                      |       Owner:  pramsey      
     Type:  defect                                          |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  high                                            |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.1
Component:  postgis                                         |     Version:  2.0.x        
 Keywords:  documentation ldconfig ld.so.conf libjson.so.0  |  
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 There is an error in the documentation for compiling PostGIS from sources
 and its dependencies (Proj4, GEOS, LibXML2, JSON-C, GDAL).

 The nature of the bug it is not documented that people must manually add
 their library folders to "/etc/ld.so.conf" and then execute "sudo
 ldconfig" otherwise PostGIS will cause an error when the functions are
 being installed to a database by executing "psql -d geocoder -f
 postgis.sql".

 The error encountered is:
 ERROR:  could not load library "/usr/pgsql-9.1/lib/postgis-2.0.so":
 libjson.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 For my machine the solution was to execute the following commands after
 installing the dependencies but before installing PostGIS:
 sudo echo '/usr/local/lib' >> /etc/ld.so.conf
 sudo echo '/usr/lib' >> /etc/ld.so.conf
 sudo echo '/usr/lib64' >> /etc/ld.so.conf
 sudo ldconfig


 Source:
 http://postgis.17.n6.nabble.com/PostGIS-ERROR-could-not-load-library-quot-
 usr-pgsql-9-1-lib-postgis-2-0-so-quot-td4571978.html

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