[postgis-users] Install problem

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 12:21 -0700, Brent Wood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
> 
> I'm trying a Debian based distro (SimplyMepis) & have compiled & installed
> Postgres, & am trying to get Postgis working.
> 
> (The repositories do not have latest versions, & I'm running 64bit which is not
> supported by DebianGIS- hence the compile from source)
> 
> Postgres seems fine:
> 
> select version();
> PostgreSQL 8.2.4 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.0.3
> (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)
> 
> 
> PostGIS seemed to configure/make/make install fine.
> 
> However, when I try to install Postgis into a database it fails.
> 
> createlang plpgsql baw     # seemed fine
> psql -d baw -f lwpostgis.sql   # fails, the initial error msg is:
> 
> BEGIN
> psql:lwpostgis.sql:43: NOTICE:  type "histogram2d" is not yet defined
> DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition.
> psql:lwpostgis.sql:43: ERROR:  could not load library
> "/usr/local/pgsql/lib/liblwgeom.so.1.2": /usr/local/pgsql/lib/liblwgeom.so.1.2:
> undefined symbol: has_arc
> psql:lwpostgis.sql:48: ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, commands ignored
> until end of transaction block
> ...
> 
> the library file does exist: /usr/local/pgsql/lib/liblwgeom.so.1.2
> 
> ls -l /usr/local/pgsql/lib/liblwgeom.so.1.2
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1371563 2007-05-02 18:50
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib/liblwgeom.so.1.2
> 
> 
> I tried runing ldconfig to tidy up lib paths,
> 
> locate liblwgeom
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib/liblwgeom.so
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib/liblwgeom.so.1
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib/liblwgeom.so.1.2
> 
> (the 1st two are symlinks to the last one)
> suggests there is no other lib file of thge same name hanging around.
> 
> 
> 
> Can anyone suggest what the problem is & how to fix it? I've normally used
> OpenSUSE & have not run into this problem before. 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    Brent Wood


Hi Brent,

I believe this is the GEOS version bug in PostGIS 1.2.x, in other words
you'll need to install at least GEOS 2.2 series. Paul, is it worth
filing this as a bug and/or committing a fix to SVN?


Kind regards,

Mark.