[postgis-users] problem compiling postgis 1.0.5 and 1.0.6

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On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:17:58PM +0100, Guillaume Sueur wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> an old problem shows up again.
> I've upgraded from postgresql 8.0 to 8.1 and it went ok, the postmaster 
> is running again.
> But when I try to compile postgis 1.0.6 or 1.0.5 from the contrib 
> directory, I have the following message : usr/bin/ld: can't find -lpq
> I checked these points :
> 	- libpq.so is under /usr/local/pgsql/lib
> 	- /usr/local/pgsql/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf
> 	- ldconfig has been run after that.
> and I still have the same problem.
> 
> Any idea ?

The postgresql source must be configured and built.
Postgis 1.0.x still uses data in pgsql source tree.

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