[postgis-users] problem with geos when running regress tests

[ricardd at mathstat.dal.ca]

Hello,
I'm installing the latest GEOS and postGIS on an Ubuntu distribution.

postgresql was built from source and is up and running.

GEOS installation went well and the libraries are installed in
/usr/local/lib:

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postgres at octopus-desktop:$ ls /usr/local/lib | grep geos
libgeos.a
libgeos_c.a
libgeos_c.la
libgeos_c.so
libgeos_c.so.1
libgeos_c.so.1.1.1
libgeos.la
libgeos.so
libgeos.so.2
libgeos.so.2.2.3
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postgis configure and make went well but I'm getting an error when running
the regress tests. The regress log says:

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psql:lwpostgis.sql:39: ERROR:  could not load library
"/downloads/postgresql-8.1.4/contrib/postgis-1.1.3/lwgeom/liblwgeom.so.1.1":
libgeos_c.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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Somehow, liblwgeom.so.1.1 isn't finding libgeos_c.so.1:

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postgres at octopus-desktop:$ ldd
/downloads/postgresql-8.1.4/contrib/postgis-1.1.3/lwgeom/liblwgeom.so.1.1
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libgeos_c.so.1 => not found
        libproj.so.0 => /usr/lib/libproj.so.0 (0xb7ee4000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7db5000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7d92000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
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What can I do to fix this? I added /usr/local/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH but
I'm still getting the same error.
Cheers,

Dan