[postgis-users] strange compile problems

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Wednesday 20 September 2006 21:39, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 05:03:00PM -0700, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> > cd postgresql-8.1.3
> > ./configure
> > make
> > sudo make install
>
> Where did this install PostgreSQL?  If you didn't set --prefix when
> you ran configure then everything probably went under /usr/local/pgsql.
>
> > gcc -march=opteron -DUSE_VERSION=81 -DPOSTGIS_LIB_VERSION='"1.1.3"'
> > -DPOSTGIS_VERSION='"1.1 USE_GEOS=1 USE_PROJ=1
> > USE_STATS=1"' -DPOSTGIS_SCRIPTS_VERSION='"1.1.3"'
> > -DPOSTGIS_BUILD_DATE='"2006-09-20 23:31:02"' -I/usr/local/include
> > -DUSE_PROJ  -I/usr/include/postgresql/8.1/server -DAUTOCACHE_BBOX=1 
> > -DUSE_STATS -Wall -g -O2 -fPIC -fexceptions -DUSE_GEOS
> > -I/usr/local/include     -c -o liblwgeom.o liblwgeom.c
> > In file included from liblwgeom.c:26:
> > lwgeom_pg.h:4:22: error: postgres.h: No such file or directory
> > lwgeom_pg.h:5:29: error: utils/geo_decls.h: No such file or directory
> > lwgeom_pg.h:6:18: error: fmgr.h: No such file or directory
>
> The above gcc command is looking for PostgreSQL header files in
> /usr/include/postgresql/8.1/server, which probably isn't where the
> earlier PostgreSQL installation put them.
>
> >    PGSQL: /usr/bin/pg_config
>
> This looks like the culprit.  Is /usr/bin/pg_config from a previous
> installation of PostgreSQL?  Perhaps installed via a pre-built
> package and nobody installed the package with the server-side header
> files?  Did your most recent PostgreSQL build install a file named
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config?

Thanks michael:

i am not sure why there was a /usr/bin/pg_config on my system, as last time I 
explicitly installed it into /usr/local/ ... it might have come in via a 
debian package that was later removed...? After removing the mystery 
pg_config, postgis compiles perfectly now.

Thanks!

Dylan


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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
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