[postgis-users] newbie install problem with GEOS

[Nicolas Ribot]

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Nicolas


On 4/3/07, trobertson at gbif.org <trobertson at gbif.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am newbie to POSTGIS and to my mac, and banging my head against the desk
> trying to get it to install.
>
> I have POSTGRES installed and working  I thought I had POSTGIS working
> only to find that when I try and do a CONTAINS() I get the "you need to
> build with GEOS" message...
>
> So, I try and follow the destructions, I downloaded PROJ4 and GEOS and in
> both do:
>
> su root
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> then copy the POSTGIS to the POSTGRES/contrib directory.
>
> I change the Makefil.contrib to have
>
> USE_GEOS=1
> GEOS_DIR=/usr/local
>
> USE_PROJ=1
> PROJ_DIR=/usr/local
>
> and when I run the ./configure in the
> /usr/local/src/postgres/postgresql-8.2.3/contrib/postgis-1.2.1 I get
>
> checking for geos-config... no
> checking for proj... no
>
> and the Makefile.config gets overridden to have 0's again where I set it
> to 1...
>
> Is GEOS installed?  How can I test?  Why is the config getting overriden?
>
> Please help - and be aware that I have very little clue as to what the C
> compiler setup is really doing so to be honest I need an idiots guide!
>
> Any help greatly appreciated at this point...
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim
>
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