[postgis-users] PostGIS install on postgres 8.3 running on 64bit OpenSuse10.3

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Calum Byrom wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.  I've tried what you suggested but to no 
> avail.  Observations whilst doing this:
> 
> i) If I install PostGIS from the unzipped source, via a ./configure, 
> gmake, sudo gmake install, the lwpostgis.sql, etc scripts get put in 
> /usr/share and contain unexpanded $libdir variables.  The liblwgeom 
> files end up under /usr/lib64/postgresql
> 
> ii) If I install PostGIS via the rpm, using the YaST2 GUI, the 
> lwpostgis.sql, etc scripts get put in /usr/share/postgis and the $libdir 
> variable they use is expanded to /usr/lib64 (although I don't think any 
> expansion is actually being done since the timestamp on these files is 
> quite old - so they're just being unpacked to this dir).  The liblwgeom 
> files here get unpacked this libdir - i.e. /usr/lib64
> 
> I've not done anything out of standard for any of the installs except 
> for configuring the postgres install using, LDFLAGS=-lstdc++ 
> ./configure  - as suggested in the setup guide I was following (see link 
> in first mail).
> 
> Any other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Calum.


Hi Calum,

What does the output of "pg_config" show? You should run this as the 
same user you ran configure. You may also try "which pg_config" to see 
from where configure is finding your PostgreSQL configuration information.


ATB,

Mark.

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