[postgis-users] /usr/src/configure

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

Changqing,

Greetings!  It looks like you went one directory too far.  You'll need
to be in /usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1 to run configure (so you really only
needed to cd ..).  I hope it helps.

-Perry


On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 22:57, Changqing Zhou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently downloaded postgresql and postgis. When I was trying to run
> ./configure, I got errors at the bottom of the email.
> 
> Please help.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Changqing
> 
> ***************************************** Instructions from web site.
> Move the tar file to the 'contrib' directory of you PostgreSQL source tree
> (e.g. "C:\cygwin\src\postgresql-7.4-1\contrib"), and de-compress it.
> 
> cd /usr/src/postgresql-7.4-1
> cd contrib
> tar xvzf postgis-0.8.0.tar.gz
> 
> Change directories to the root of the PostgreSQL source tree:
> 
> cd ../..
> 
> Use the following configure arguments to configure the master makefile
> correctly, then make, but DON'T make install
> 
> ./configure --enable-multibyte --with-CXX --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
> --docdir=/usr/doc/postgresql-$version
> make
> *****************************
> 
> 
> $ pwd
> /usr/src
> 
> czhou at CONSTITUTION /usr/src
> $ ls
> gcc-3.3.1-3         gcc-ada-3.3.1-3.README  gcc-java-3.3.1-3.README
> gcc-3.3.1-3.README  gcc-g++-3.3.1-3.README  gcc-objc-3.3.1-3.README
> gcc-3.3.1-3.patch   gcc-g77-3.3.1-3.README  postgresql-7.4-1
> gcc-3.3.1-3.sh      gcc-gpc-3.3.1-3.README
> 
> czhou at CONSTITUTION /usr/src
> $ ./configure
> bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
> 
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