[postgis-users] postgis solaris

[Andrew Seales]

Ibrahim HIDIR wrote:

> Postgis installation requires source of postgresql, so i tyried to use
> the sourse but i am getting always tons of errors. What can I do?
>
I had a lot of fun with this on Solaris 8 a while ago. The first thing
to make sure is that you're using the GNU gcc with the GNU linker and
not Sun's own. Postgres will compile okay as long as you don't add in
too many optional extras, but Postgis will have problems talking to the
geom library since the Solaris linker doesn't have enough support for
exporting symbols from libraries.

I can't really say more than this without any more details of the exact
error messages.

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