[postgis-users] PostGIS on Mac OS X (was Help urgently needed - geomfromEWKT() / PostGIS on Mac OS X)

[strk at refractions.net]

You need postgresql development package installed.
Note that the package is not the one containing libpq (client development)
but the one containing 'postgres.h' and friends, which is what we need.

--strk;

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 07:04:38PM +0100, Benoit Ogier wrote:
> 
> Le 9 févr. 06 à 15:23, Christian Heine a écrit :
> 
> >>Yesterday, I loose hours to understand why ./configure returns  
> >>some errors (Postgres not found). Any idea about these ./configure  
> >>problems ?
> >As I said, ./configure on postgresql did not produce errors when I  
> >ran it, some warnings yes, but no proper errors. May be it didn't  
> >like some of the compiler flags you specified, but I am not a  
> >specialist... unfortunately ;-))
> My configure errors were in PostGIS, not in Postgres. As you can see  
> below, with a simple ./configure, pgis configure script did not find  
> Postgres location (pg_config)... Could somebody explain whats wrong  
> (or not) here ?
> 
> iBookG4:/geo/PG8.1.2/postgresql-8.1.2/contrib/postgis-1.1.1_2 benoit 
> $ ./configure
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking for g++... g++
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking for iconv_open in -liconv... yes
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for egrep... grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking iconv.h usability... yes
> checking iconv.h presence... yes
> checking for iconv.h... yes
> checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.4.0
> checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.4.0
> checking for pg_config... no
> configure: error: PostgreSQL is required by PostGIS
> 
> 
> >Thanks so far for all the responses. May be the Mac users on this  
> >list could team up and write a short manual on installing  
> >procedures that could go into the postgis wiki.
> Would be great !!! For specific stuff around unix ports (mainly  
> postgres in our case) and Mac OS X, you can have a look at http:// 
> www.entropy.ch. Very great site for Mac users (sorry if it's a little  
> of topic).
> 
> BO
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