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

[Greg Troxel]

Thanks.   Here's the workaround I have in place, which works fine.
Plus, shouldn't that be -L${libdir} in your patch?

(This patch is applied to postgis sources before building.)

$NetBSD: patch-aa,v 1.1 2006/09/20 16:24:46 gdt Exp $

--- configure.orig	2006-07-01 00:53:02.000000000 -0400
+++ configure
@@ -3735,7 +3735,7 @@ fi;
 
 if test $USE_GEOS -gt 0; then
 	GEOS_DIR=`$GEOSCONFIG --prefix`
-	GEOS_LDFLAGS=`$GEOSCONFIG --ldflags`
+	GEOS_LDFLAGS=`$GEOSCONFIG --libs`
 	GEOS_MAJOR=`$GEOSCONFIG --version | cut -d. -f1`
 	if test "$GEOS_MAJOR" = "@GEOS_VERSION@"; then
 		GEOS_MAJOR=1


This patch (among others not relevant to this issue) is applied to
geos 2.0.0.  It's kludgy, but it gets -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib added like it
should be.

$NetBSD: patch-ae,v 1.1 2006/09/20 16:01:48 gdt Exp $

--- tools/geos-config.in.orig	2004-07-17 05:07:17.000000000 -0400
+++ tools/geos-config.in
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ case $1 in
     echo @CFLAGS@ -I at prefix@/include 
       ;;
     --libs)
-      echo -L at prefix@/lib -lgeos
+      echo -L at prefix@/lib @LDFLAGS@ -lgeos
       ;;
     --includes)
       echo @prefix@/include


So perhaps postgis should require a newer version of geos.  When did
-ldflags get added?  I see 2.2.3 has it.  (I'm currently building
2.2.3 with an uncommitted pkgsrc update, as that seems safer than
3.0.0rc right now.)