[postgis-users] MORE Newbie: Windows Install Help

[Norman Vine]

Hankley, Chip writes:
>
>Thanks, that #$@ Readme file again! What's wrong w/ me?
>
>I made those changes, but I'm still bombing out. Here's how it
>looks now.
>
>BTW, I had to load PERL to get the make to work...

Nit picking here but ...
Make does not need Perl but gnu automake does
automake is only needed by the autoconf process

> that's one thing that
>hasn't been noted as "req'd" for the Cygwin download. I'm
>going to *try* to
>write a 'non-unix-users' guide to installing this.
>
>$ make install
>make -C loader
>make[1]: Entering directory
>`/usr/src/postgresql-7.2.1-2/contrib/postgis-0.7.1/loader'
>make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>make[1]: Leaving directory
>`/usr/src/postgresql-7.2.1-2/contrib/postgis-0.7.1/loader'
>/bin/sh.exe ../../config/install-sh -c -m 644 libpostgis.a
>/usr/lib/contrib/libpostgis.a
>/bin/sh.exe ../../config/install-sh -c -m 755 postgis.dll
>/usr/lib/contrib/postgis.dll
>/bin/sh.exe ../../config/install-sh -c -m 644 ./README.postgis
>/usr/doc/postgresql-/contrib
>/bin/sh.exe ../../config/install-sh -c -m 644 postgis.sql
>/usr/share/postgresql/contrib
>/bin/sh.exe ../../config/install-sh -c -m 644 postgis_undef.sql
>/usr/share/postgresql/contrib
>/bin/sh.exe ../../config/install-sh -c -m 644 spatial_ref_sys.sql
>/usr/share/postgresql/contrib
>/bin/sh.exe ../../config/install-sh -c -m 644 README.postgis
>/usr/share/postgresql/contrib
>make -C loader install
>make[1]: Entering directory
>`/usr/src/postgresql-7.2.1-2/contrib/postgis-0.7.1/loader'
>/bin/sh.exe ../../../config/install-sh -c pgsql2shp /usr/bin
>chmod: changing permissions of `/usr/bin/#inst.1624#': No such file or
directory
>make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
>make[1]: Leaving directory
>`/usr/src/postgresql-7.2.1-2/contrib/postgis-0.7.1/loader'
>make: *** [install] Error 2

Arrgh... You are being bitten by the Windows .exe extension thing
I thought I had submitted this patch before
< see attached >

Norman

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