[postgis-users] Install problem

[Paul Ramsey]

By which you mean the has_arc symbol doesn't exist in GEOS3 and it 
should? Guessing randomly here...

(FYI, Brent, these things are usually caused by the liblwgeom library 
being unable to link to some other library at runtime, usually GEOS. In 
this case it looks like there is a mismatch between the library 
liblwgeom is built against and the one it is loading. Any chance you 
have both geos2 and geos3 on that machine?)

Paul

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 


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