[postgis-users] installation problems: can't find makefile.global, makefile.shplib

[strk]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:55:33PM -0700, Michael Mallete wrote:
> hello everone! just starting out here. i hope you
> wouldn't mind me posting these questions here which
> could've been posted in the past. 
> 
> first off, when i was to untar the postgis tarball, i
> didn't see any contrib folder in my postgres source
> tree. so instead i created one as root.
> 
> then when i executed "make" or "gmake," this happens: 
> 
> Makefile:38: ../../src/Makefile.global: No such file
> or directory
> Makefile:160: /src/Makefile.shlib: No such file or
> directory
> make: *** No rule to make target
> `/src/Makefile.shlib'.  Stop.
> 
> was there anything wrong with my postgres
> installation? or should i have edited something in the
> makefile? my postgres source tree is /usr/local/pgsql/
> 
> help! thanx in advance :)

Where did you extract the postgis package ?
By default it wants to in in the pgsql contrib/ directory,
but you can specify pgsql source with the environment variable
PGSQL_SRC if you need.
--strk;

> 
> -Myk
> 
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