[postgis-users] About $libdir

[Paul Ramsey]

All the $libdir problems seem to adhere to cases where people are 
building against a distributed version of PgSQL, rather than against a 
source tree they compiled themselves.

While, I often thing a standalone postgis with a configure script would 
be an improvement, the number of potential cases due to packagers doing 
inconsistent things with their various distributions (in  the FreeBSD 
case it appears that the binary package had a different configuration 
from the source package, same with the Cygwin case) might defeat any 
attempt at automatically finding all the information needed for a compile.

P.

strk wrote:
> 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;
> 
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