[postgis-users] installation (last step) problems

[strk]

Did you communicate your system about the newly installed GEOS shared lib ?
For unix system this is done with 'ldconfig'.
--strk;

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:25:01PM +0200, Marie-Lise VAUTIER wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I know that it is a very current problem, but I have a problem with the last
> step of the installation of postgis, that is to say, when I enter spql -d mydb
> -f postgis.sql.
> I have installed geos and proj4, because I already had problems without them.
> geos has been installed with the default ./configure and proj4 with ./configure
> --prefix=/usr/local/proj4.
> 
> I get the following error message:
> 
> 
> 
> [postgres at localhost postgres]$ psql -d mydb -f
> /usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib/postgis.sql
> BEGIN
>         message
> ------------------------
>  PL/PgSQL is installed.
> (1 row)
>  
> NOTICE:  type "histogram2d" is not yet defined
> DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition.
> ERROR:  could not load library "/usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpostgis.so.0.8":
> libgeos.so.1: cannot open shared obj
> ect file: No such file or directory
> psql:/usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib/postgis.sql:44: NOTICE:  type "histogram2d"
> is not yet defined
> DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition.
> psql:/usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib/postgis.sql:44: ERROR:  could not load
> library "/usr/local/pgsql/lib/libp
> ostgis.so.0.8": libgeos.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of
> transaction block
> psql:/usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib/postgis.sql:49: ERROR:  current transaction
> is aborted, commands ignored
> until end of transaction block
> 
> 
> libgeos.so.1 is in /usr/local/lib.
> 
> I have not "linked postgresql against the standard c++ library", as described in
> the documentation, because I don't know exactly where to write this line. Is it
> the reason why it doesn't work?
> 
> Thank you for your help, Marie-Lise.
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