[postgis-users] Compilation problem: 1.1.4 with PostgreSQL 7.3

[Fran Boon]

Antonio Grassi wrote:
> Hi. I had the same problem some days ago with and old version of gcc. I 
> changed to a newer version (3.3.5) and everything worked ok. If you 
> don't want to upgrade, look at the source code of lwgeom_gist.c, you 
> will see a couple of preprocessor directives around those lines, to 
> differenciate between version >= 8.2 and < 8.2 of postgres, with an if, 
> else and endif. Just remove those directives and leave the code in the 
> section corresponding to your case (<8.2)

Great, that works a treat :)
- line 547
I don't know enough to be able to submit a diff which allows both >82 & 
<82 to work seamlessly...

> After changing that, I think the same thing occurs again somewhere else 
> in lwgeom_gist.c. Do the same there.

Yes, line 561

Many thanks,
Fran.