[postgis-users] Mac OS X installation problem - no "coveredby" in liblwgeom.1.3.so"

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 09:51 -0700, Webb Sprague wrote:
> I just compiled postgis-1.3.1 with the following:
> 
> $ ./configure  --prefix=/usr/local/postgis-1.3.1
> --with-proj-libdir=/usr/local/proj-4.5.0/lib/
> --with-geos-libdir=/usr/local/geos-3.0.0rc4/lib/
> $ make && make install
> 
> So far so good.  But then I did the following:
> 
> $ cd /usr/local/postgis-1.3.1/share
> $ psql -d foobar -f lwpostgis.sql
> 
> And I get the following error after a whole bunch of successful statements:
> 
> psql:lwpostgis.sql:4093: ERROR:  could not find function "coveredby"
> in file "/usr/local/postgis-1.3.1/lib/liblwgeom.1.3.so"
> 
> Any ideas?  I have geos-3.0.0rc4, and this actually happens from the
> svn snapshot as well.  Also, it is able to find *other* functions in
> liblwgeom of the error would have happened earlier in lwpostigis.sql
> 
> Thx!
> W


Hi Webb,

I must confess I've never used the --with-libdir arguments to configure
- I've always gone for explicit --with-pgsql, --with-geos, and
--with-proj switches. If you check
the /usr/local/postgis-1.3.1/share/lwpostgis.sql, does it contain the
correct path to liblwgeom.1.3.so?


ATB,

Mark.

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