[postgis-users] question with compiling PostGIS in Redhat

[Nelson Tong]

  I am trying to compile postgis against PostgreSQL7.2.2 in redhat 7.3. 
Originally, I thought the entire source tree of the PostgreSQL could have 
come with redhat ( I am using Redhat database 2.0, which basically is 
PostgreSQL7.2.2) , so I went into the "contrib"  of the PostgreSQL 
installation and uncompress the postgis archive ( postgis-0.7.5.tar.gz). I 
edited the Makefile with the following:

subdir=contrib/postgis-0.7.5

and then I tried to run compile commands with "make". The following error 
came up:

../../src/Makefile.global:269: ../../src/Makefile.port: No such file or 
directory
Makefile:111: @abs_top_srcdir@/src/Makefile.shlib: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `@abs_top_srcdir@/src/Makefile.shlib'.  
Stop.

Does this mean I would probably need to compile PostGIS against a full copy 
of the PostgresSQL source tree? Has anyone tried to compile and install 
PostGIS successfully with PostgreSQL that comes with Redhat database? Sorry 
for asking such stupid questions, but I think I am still just a novice when 
it comes to compiling source code from scratch in the linux environment.

S.T.

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