[postgis-users] About $libdir

[strk]

benjamin.thelen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks again, it was very helpful and I beginn to understand correlations.
> 
> I use postgis 0.7.4.
> 
> Maybe it is my fault. I am running FreeBSD 4.7, installed postgresql via the
> FreeBSD Ports-Collection, but downloaded the official tar.gz and compiled
> it. I also downloaded the FreeBSD-Port, but I suppose, as this is much, much
> smaller than the official that this tar.gz. will not work. I think, that the
> port mainly consists of a Makefile and some little more information, but the
> code is downloaded at installation time. But I couldn't find out from where.

... so postgis used the Makefile of the official package to find out
where to be installed and it got it wrong ...

I think you should be able to compile and install postgres and postgis
without using explicit ports. Download the offical packages and give
them a try. Anyway... you should have no problems in using postgis
with your actual installation.

--strk;