[postgis-users] Solution of: Cannot compile postgis on Fedora Core 4

[Darren Houston]

Hi Marco,

If you don't want to install PostgreSQL from source and want to use the 
default PostgreSQL RPM;

Download the PostgreSQL source (same version as installed RPM), configure for 
an installation in something like /usr/local/postgis, make but DON'T make 
install. make and make install PostGIS from the PostgreSQL source contrib 
directory, update the libraries, load the SQL from PostGIS and everything 
should work. That's how I do it with Gentoo and the emerged PostgreSQL.

Darren H.

On August 15, 2005 04:04 pm, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 15:15:30 PM -0500, Jaime Carrera
>
> (jaicarrerahdez at yahoo.com) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had the same problem and solved it by installing postgresql FROM
> > source (i.e. compiling it).
> > I had this problem in Red Hat 9 and when I upgraded to fedora,
> > decided to compile postgres from source instead of downloading the
> > rpms.
>
> Yes, I can confirm now that even on Fedora Core 4 you have to do the
> same thing to compile postgis without errors:
>
> download postgresql sources
> compile and install them
> go to contrib directory in postgresql sources
> compile there as explained on www.postgis.org
>
> I haven't *tried* it yet, but it did make and make install where I
> wanted without reporting any errors.
>
> Too bad it doesn't work with standard RPMs. I hope to have time some
> day to figure out how to patch the configure/Makefile of postgis to
> make it work there. Or is it something more serious than a simple
> difference in paths??
>
> Thanks to all who answered,
>
>        Marco