[postgis-users] Postgis installation - Trouble with 'make check'

[Bill Thoen]

I don't think that's it. I can run /sbin/ldconfig with no problems.


Luigi Castro Cardeles wrote:
> hi,
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> are you using SELinux? maybe this is blocking access to some 
> libraries. try to run ldconfig and see if some brite star show up at 
> your uper bar. maybe you have to create some policy.
>
> best regards,
>
>
> 2008/6/19 Bill Thoen <bthoen at gisnet.com <mailto:bthoen at gisnet.com>>:
>
>     I'm installing PostgreSQL, Proj4, GEOS, PostGIS, GDAL and
>     MapServer on a Linux FC 9 system and  so I'm building it all from
>     source code. I got an error in the 'make check' step in building
>     PostGIS. Here's the steps I took.
>
>     Unpacked the source code into /home/postgres/postgis-1.3.3/ As
>     postgres, I ran ./configure with the options I wanted.
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>     ./configure  \
>      --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config \
>      --with-geos=/usr/local/bin/geos-config \
>      --with-proj=/usr/local/ \
>      --with-proj-libdir=/usr/local/lib/
>
>     (this worked fine)
>
>     Then I ran make, which also appeared to work fine.
>
>     Then I ran 'make check' and got the following feedback:
>
>     make -C regress test
>     make[1]: Entering directory `/home/postgres/postgis-1.3.3/regress'
>     Creating spatial db postgis_reg
>     ERROR:  function postgis_lib_version() does not exist
>     LINE 1: select postgis_lib_version()
>                  ^
>     HINT:  No function matches the given name and argument types. You
>     might need to add explicit type casts.
>
>     Something went wrong (no postgis installed in postgis_reg).
>     For details, check /tmp/pgis_reg_12582/regress_log
>
>
>     Looking at the log details, it seems that there's a function
>     missing, and this caused the make check step to fail. The log file
>     says:
>
>     psql:lwpostgis.sql:3856: ERROR:  could not find function
>     "topologypreservesimplify" in file "/usr/local/pgsql/lib/liblwgeom.so"
>
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>     Does anyone here know what went wrong and how I can fix it?
>
>     TIA,
>     - Bill Thoen
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