[postgis-users] Makefile syntax problem with 1.2/8.2?

[Thy, Kristian]

From: Devrim GUNDUZ
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:59 +0000, Nick Bower wrote:
> > Hi.  This is weirding me out - I'm not new to Postgis/Postgres, but an
> > getting a compilation syntax error when building using FC6 packaged
> > proj/geos. Any ideas? 
> 
> I just got the same error. Applying this patch solved my problem; but
> I'm not sure whether this is the right fix or not:
> 
> =========================
> --- configure.old       2006-12-25 14:39:26.000000000 +0200
> +++ configure   2006-12-25 14:39:35.000000000 +0200
> @@ -4609,13 +4609,6 @@
>         GEOS_DIR=`$GEOSCONFIG --prefix`
> 
>         GEOS_LDFLAGS=`$GEOSCONFIG --ldflags 2> /dev/null`
> -       if test x"$GEOS_LDFLAGS" = "x"; then
> -               # older geos-config versions did not
> -               # support the --ldflags switch, we'll
> -               # default to GEOS_DIR/lib in this case.
> -               #
> -               GEOS_LDFLAGS="$GEOS_DIR/lib"
> -       fi
> 
>         GEOS_MAJOR=`$GEOSCONFIG --version | cut -d. -f1`
>         if test "$GEOS_MAJOR" = "@GEOS_VERSION@"; then
> 
> =========================

As far as I can tell the upshot of this was that the problem is best
fixed by upgrading libgeos. I'm stuck with libgeos 2.1 - can anybody
confirm that Devrims .configure patch solves the problem without
introducing other errors?

best regards,
-- 
Kristian Thy
GIS Developer
Atkins Danmark 
Transport, Miljø og GIS 
Arne Jacobsens Allé 17 
2300 København S 
tel: (+45) 8233 9366


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