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

[Michael Mallete]

first i installed postgresql 7.4.3 from source. just
the basic ./configure, gmake, then gmake install. so
it was all installed in /usr/local/pgsql. then i
created postgres.sh inside /etc/profile.d/.

when i was about to untar the postgis package, i just
found out that there is no contrib folder in my
postgres source tree. so i just created one i.e.
/usr/local/pgsql/contrib. and extracted the postgis
package there. when i then run make, 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. 

so where did i go wrong? 

thanx!

-Myk


>> 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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