[postgis-devel] autoconf versions

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 03:09:02PM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 3:01 PM Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 01:50:25PM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> > > The configuration it generates seems to run and build for me here,
> > > but obviously this is our most platform-dependent piece so some extra
> > > tests before I drop it on master would be nice.
> >
> > Tested on my main development machine running autoconf-2.69 and
> > while I had no warnings at ./autogen.sh && ./configure time, I got
> > this on `make`:
> >
> >   libtool:   error: cannot find the library '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.la' or unhandled argument '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.la'
> >
> > Am I the only one ?
> > I'm using libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.6
> 
> Not seeing anything like that here. That's really kind of odd, isn't
> it? I mean, sqlite3 would be in the proj dep chain, but it's being
> looked for in the postgis build?

Yep, not related to postgis.
The missing library was referenced by /usr/local/lib/libgdal.la
which was seemly installed before an upgrade which made it broken.
Removing that .la file fixed the PostGIS build. PostGIS code is fine.

--strk;