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

[strk at refractions.net]

Did you export LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the environment ?
Try also running ldconfig.

--strk;

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:16:57PM -0300, ricardd at mathstat.dal.ca wrote:
> 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:
> 
> *******************************************************
> 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
> *******************************************************
> 
> postgis configure and make went well but I'm getting an error when running
> the regress tests. The regress log says:
> 
> *******************************************************
> 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
> *******************************************************
> 
> Somehow, liblwgeom.so.1.1 isn't finding libgeos_c.so.1:
> 
> ********************************************************
> 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)
> ********************************************************
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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