[postgis-users] PostGIS with Mapserver/Mapscript 4.0

[Norman Vine]

Mike Leahy writes:
> 
> I apologize if I'm asking what may be an obvious question, but can you tell me 
> where I would find the version of PostGIS that you plan to comit these changes 
> to?  Is it the CVS download on the postgis.refractions.net downloads page?  If 
> so, I was not able to compile that version (the results from my attempt are 
> below).
> 
> Sorry if I'm way off here - perhaps I just don't know exactly how to use CVS 
> version...what would I have to do differently compared to compiling 0.7.5?
> 
> Output from compiling CVS source code:
 
> gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -g -fexceptions   -
> I. -DFRONTEND -DSYSCONFDIR='"/etc/postgresql"'
> -DUSE_VERSION=73 -I/usr/local/include/geos -DUSE_GEOS -I/usr/local/include -
> DUSE_PROJ  -DUSE_STATS  -I../../src/include   -c
> -o postgis_transform.o postgis_transform.c
> postgis_transform.c:49:22: projects.h: No such file or directory

The compiler can not find the Proj4 headers. 
Have you installed it ?

To PostGIS Readme maintainer:

Perhaps we should add the Proj4 URL to the Readme file ?
http://www.remotesensing.org/proj

HTH

Norman