[postgis-users] Error [liblwgeom] Error 2

[Stephen Woodbridge]

strk at refractions.net wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:38:30PM -0500, Jairo Sánchez wrote:
> 
>>Hello to all,
>>This is me frist time in the list, I hope you can help .
>>
>>I'm trying to install PostGIS but I get the following error:
>>
>># make
>>make -C lwgeom
>>make[1]: execvp: /usr/local/pgsql/bin: Permiso denegado
>>make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sistemas2/postgresql-8.1.2
>>/contrib/postgis-1.1.0/lwgeom'
>>make[1]: execvp: /usr/local/pgsql/bin: Permiso denegado
>>make[1]: execvp: /usr/local/pgsql/bin: Permiso denegado
>>make[1]: execvp: /usr/local/pgsql/bin: Permiso denegado
>>make[1]: execvp: /usr/local/pgsql/bin: Permiso denegado
>>make[1]: execvp: /usr/local/pgsql/bin: Permiso denegado
> 
> 
> The build process is trying to execute /usr/local/pgsql/bin
> which is what you provided to ./configure --with-pgsql=<>
> 
> Full path to pg_config is required there, so should be:
> 
> 	--with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config
> 
> Since this is not the first case, is there any postgis
> documentation making people belive a directory is expected ?

I think this is a case of general confusion for users that are not 
familiar with the build process because some options expect the install 
directory like:

/usr
/usr/local

some expect a path to a configured source tree like:

/path/to/my/private/build/area/application/source/tree

and yet others expect a path to an executable like:

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config

so they look for other examples in the documentation and just copy them. 
  It would probably help to have some common examples and if a user does 
not know where the file might be located then suggest using something 
like:  "locate pg_config"

Just a thought that might help.

-Steve W.