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

[dhouston at beyondcompliance.ca]

Hello Michael,

Which directory did you issue ./configure, gmake, gmake install? This will be
your PostgreSQL source. By default, PostgreSQL installs in /usr/local/pgsql.
This is not the source. Wherever you issued ./configure, gmake and gmake
install will have a contrib directory where you install PostGIS from. Don't
worry, PostGIS will know PostgreSQL resides at /usr/local/pgsql and install to
there.

Hope this helps,

Darren H.


Michael Mallete (mrmallete at yahoo.com) wrote:
>
> 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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