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

[Michael Mallete]

hello mr. darren! i've already installed postgresql
7.4.3 and it's up and running. the source tree is
located at the default /usr/local/pgsql directory.
my problem is, when i run make for postgis, it looks
for makefile.global and makefile.shlib which appears
to be missing. my postgres source tree doesn't have a
contrib folder so i just manually added one. 
so am i missing something? some package perhaps?

thanx!


-Myk



>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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