[postgis-users] configure error

[Norman Vine]

Roland Forster writes:

> >
>
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-10/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
> > cannot find -lcygipc
> > but configure is failing because ld cannot find libcygipc.a
> > does  /usr/local/lib/libcygipc.a exist ??
>
> Unfortunatly it is installed and does exist. I got the same error.
> Do you have any idea?
>

Roland

It appears as if there have been some subtle changes in Cygwin
with the release of gcc-2 and gcc 3.0 that I don't completely understand
yet

but the good news is that I managed to build todays PostGIS source
with the following

% cd $POSTGRES_SOURCE
% rm config.cache
% CC="gcc-2 -L/usr/local/lib" CXX="c++-2 -L/usr/local/lib"
/configure  --enable-multibyte --with-python --with-perl --with-CXX --prefix
=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --docdir=/usr/doc/postgresql- --no-create --no-recur
sion
% ./config.status
% cd contrib/postgis-0.7.3
% make

please let us know if this works for you

HTH

Norman