[postgis-users] freeBSD GEOS upgrade problem with PostGIS

[Stephen Woodbridge]

strk at refractions.net wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 08:49:44AM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> ...
> 
>>on the upgrade to GEOS 2.1.4
>>  ln -s libgeos.so.3 libgeos.so.2
>>
>>and on this current upgrade to GEOS 2.2.0
>>  ln -s libgeos.so.4 libgeos.so.2
> 
> 
> Are you saying that GEOS-2.1.4 package installed
> libgeos.so.3 and GEOS-2.2.0 package installed libgeos.so.4 ??
> Using `./configure; make install;` ??

No, this is most likely an issue with the freeBSD port maintainer. On 
freeBSD, there is a "ports" directory which has all the application 
ports and it gets updated when there are new packages available. I just do:

sudo portupgrade geos

and a script fetches the new tarball, applies and freeBSD specific 
patches (if any) and does the ./configure ; make ; make install and 
whatever else needs to be done.

So I am saying the sudo portupgrade geos installed GEOS-2.1.4 as 
libgeos.so.3 and just installed GEOS-2.2.0 as libgeos.so.4

I am reluctant to start hand installing software because the port system 
maintains a database of dependency, etc much like the Debian package 
system and reports when packages have security issues, updates etc, and 
I loose all that if I hand install it.

I think that the last maintainer for the geos port was
Leonardo Martins lmartins at nepe.eee.ufg.br
but I have not been able to contact him and I think the port is no 
longer being maintained.

Are there any other freeBSD users on the list that have had this problem?

-Steve