[postgis-devel] PATH required on make check

[Bruce Rindahl]

That is the strange issue.  Postgresql is installed in the default
location.  As is gdal, geos, and proj which were also built from source.
Postgis ./configure finds those three just fine but I have to set
--with-pgconfig or it will error out saying unable to find pg_config.
Then some of the tests seem to add the default path but some do not.
OS is raspian which is a version of Debian stretch.
Thanks

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 7:42 AM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com wrote:

> Bruce Rindahl <bruce.rindahl at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > /usr/local/pgsql/bin is not in PATH
> >
> > Then in source:
> >
> > ./configure --with-pgconfig=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config
> > make
> > sudo make install
> > make check
> >
> > The first few sets of checks run (PATH is shown as including
> > /usr/local/pgsql/bin
> > ).  When you get to the raster tests, PATH does not show
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin
> > and the tests fail.
>
> If I follow, you are operating in a way where the postgresql binaries
> are not in the default path, and that seems surprising to expect that to
> work - but perhaps you are using a packaging system that has a different
> for each package and tries to keep PATH minimal.  I would expect that
> this would cause lots of problems.
>
> So I would suggest a doc fix that says that when building, testing and
> using postgis, it is expected that the PATH contain the bin directory of
> the prefix that pgsql was configured for.
>
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