[postgis-users] Installation with Proj

Rob Agar robagar at westnet.com.au
Mon Jun 4 03:15:06 PDT 2007


I think I had this same problem - if it was the same one, running 
ldconfig to rebuild the shared object cache fixed it.

ht (might) h
Rob


Andy Dale wrote:
> After installing proj, the contents under /usr/local/lib are
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1     root root 1300710 Jun 4 12:05 libproj.a
> -rwxr-xr-x 1   root root 796 Jun 4 12:05 libproj.la <http://libproj.la>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun 4 12:05 libproj.so -> libproj.so.0.5.2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun 4 12:05 libproj.so.0 -> libproj.so.0.5.2
> -rwxr-xr-x 1   root root 758060 Jun 4 12:05 libproj.so.0.5.2
> 
> Postgis recompiled fine after the installation of proj, it even auto 
> found the proj on the system.  The problem comes when i try and run the 
> sql script to upgrade postgis
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> On 04/06/07, *jrom* <jerome.gasperi at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jerome.gasperi at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Andy,
> 
>     After ./configure did you recompile postgis without any problem ?
>     If the compilation ran well then you should check under /usr/local/lib
>     if you have libproj.so.0 file that should be a link to the current
>     libproj.
> 
>     For example a typical proj 5 installation you should have something
>     like this under /usr/local/lib :
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 gass gass      16 2005-09-13 14:47 libproj.so ->
>     libproj.so.0.5.0
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 gass gass      16 2005-09-13 14:47 libproj.so.0 ->
>     libproj.so.0.5.0
>     -rwxr-xr-x 1 gass gass  657462 2005-09-13 14:47 libproj.so.0.5.0
> 
>     As you can see libproj.so.0 is a dynamic link to libproj.so.0.5.0.
>     If this link is not present you can create it
> 
>     Hope this help
> 
>     On 6/4/07, Andy Dale <andy.dale at gmail.com
>     <mailto:andy.dale at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > I managed to install and use Postgis without any problems,
>      > but later found out that i could not do any
>      > reprojections without the proj library.
>      >
>      > I downloaded and installed the proj library.  I then
>      > attempted to re-install Postgis with proj
>      > support like so:
>      >
>      > ./configure --with-proj=yes (without specifying this flag it
>     still find the
>      > proj library) It produces the following output:
>      >
>      > SUMMARY
>      >  -------------------------------------------------------
>      >
>      >  HOST_OS: linux-gnu
>      >
>      > PGSQL: /usr/bin/pg_config
>      > PROJ: prefix=/usr/local libdir=/usr/local/lib
>      > ICONV: 1
>      >
>      > PORTNAME: linux
>      >  PREFIX: /usr
>      > EPREFIX: ${prefix}
>      >  DOC: /usr/share/doc/postgresql/contrib
>      >  DATA: ${datarootdir}
>      >  MAN: ${datarootdir}/man
>      >  BIN: /usr/bin
>      >  EXT: /usr/lib/pgsql (\$$libdir)
>      >  -------------------------------------------------------
>      >
>      > Now when i try to run either the lwpostgis_upgrade.sql or
>     lwpostgis.sql
>      > (creates histogram2d then fails) i get the following error
>      >
>      > ERROR: could not load library
>      > "/usr/lib/pgsql/liblwgeom.so.1.2": libproj.so.0: cannot
>      > open shared object file: No such file or directory
>      >
>      > Can anyone tell me where i have gone wrong in the installation ??
>      >
>      > Thanks in advance,
>      >
>      > Andy
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
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