[postgis-users] configure error

[Roland Forster]

I tried the configure lines from Norman below but it doesn't work with gcc-2
too.
What do the lines mean generated by config.log?
Norman wrote: "Try building again after logging in as a user with sufficient
privelige"
How to do?? My postgres user is part of the administration group!

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:635: checking host system type
configure:661: checking which template to use
configure:824: checking whether to build with locale support
configure:853: checking whether to build with recode support
configure:883: checking whether to build with multibyte character support
configure:937: checking whether NLS is wanted
configure:972: checking for default port number
configure:1006: checking for default soft limit on number of connections
configure:1130: checking for gcc
configure:1243: checking whether the C compiler (gcc-2  ) works
configure:1259: gcc-2 -o conftest    conftest.c  1>&5
configure:1285: checking whether the C compiler (gcc-2  ) is a
cross-compiler
configure:1290: checking whether we are using GNU C
configure:1299: gcc-2 -E conftest.c
configure:1318: checking whether gcc-2 accepts -g
configure:1361: checking whether the C compiler (gcc-2 -O2 ) works
configure:1377: gcc-2 -o conftest -O2   conftest.c -lcygipc 1>&5
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-10/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
cannot find -lcygipc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:

#line 1372 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

main(){return(0);}


----- Original Message -----
From: "Norman Vine" <nhv at cape.com>
To: <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] configure error


> Armin Burger writes
> >
> > is the cygipc ipc-daemon running correctly? If I remeber well,
> > I once got a similar error when cygipc was not started.
>
> AFAIK cygipc shouldn't need to be running to make an
> executable,  and it must be started or else PostgreSQL
> wouldn't be up and running.
>
> But your post did jog my mind :-)
>
> Armin
>
> Does the user postgres at ROCKY have sufficient privilige to
> create executables in /usr/src/postgresql-7.2.2-1 ??
>
> As I mentioned in my earlier post 'ntsec' is now turned on by
> default and is strictly enforced !
>
> Try building again after logging in as a user with sufficient privelige
>
> If 'ntsec' doesn't mean anything to you see
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
>
> HTH
>
> Norman
>
> > > I tried to configure postgis like it is explained in "The NON-UNIX
> User's
> > > Guide to Installing PostGIS on Windows".
> > > PostgreSQL was installed as a service and runs.
> > > The source code of PostgreSQL is also installed.
> > > And gcc, gcc2, gcc-mingw are available.
> >
> > > When I try to configure the following message returns:
> >
> > > postgres at ROCKY /usr/src/postgresql-7.2.2-1
>
> > > checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 ) works... no
> > > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> cannot
> > > create executables.
> >
> > > Does anyone knows what's going wrong?
>
>
>
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