[postgis-users] Building SVN version of PostGIS on Mac OS X Leopard

[William Kyngesburye]

On Aug 20, 2008, at 9:18 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

>> Can anyone give me a hint as to how to proceed? I'm only doing this  
>> build because one of my colleagues wants to use the JSON  
>> functionality, so if there's some other way of getting this on a  
>> Mac build we'd be very happy.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
> For the internal build linking, it looks like it's supposed to link  
> to the new liblwgeom.a.  But the -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib option is  
> after -L../liblwgeom AND the OSX linker prefers dynamic libs, so  
> it's finding the old installed liblwgeom.so, which is what the new  
> liblwpostgis.so is replacing.
>
> Delete /usr/local/pgsql/lib/liblwgeom.* and try again.
>
Hmm, this could cause trouble for existing databases before they are  
updated.

A better way would be to change the linker search path behavior.  Try  
configuring by adding this:

LDFLAGS=-search_paths_first

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