[postgis-users] Re: ver 1.1.5 configure fails on Ubuntu

[strk at refractions.net]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:59:35AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I need to update pkgsrc, which is at 2.0.0.  So I have put a patch to
> postgis in pkgsrc to work around it using ldflags instead of libs.

It seems postgis doesn't automatically work with 2.0.0 version of geos,
but I see it's possible to use --with-geos-libdir=... to override
the default GEOS_LDFLAGS (which in your case is set to the empty string,
given the invalid call).
Please try that.

--strk;

> gdt 2 > geos-config --prefix
> /usr/pkg
> gdt 3 > geos-config --ldflags
> Usage: geos-config [OPTIONS]
> Options:
>      [--prefix]
>      [--version]
>      [--libs]
>      [--cflags]
>      [--includes]
>      [--jtsport]
> gdt 4 > geos-config --version
> 2.0.0
> gdt 5 > geos-config --version  | cut -d. -f1
> 2
> gdt 6 > geos-config --libs
> -L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -lgeos