[postgis-users]Re: Installing PostGIS on Mac OS X

Maurits Diephuis m.diephuis at student.utwente.nl
Thu Oct 9 07:59:36 PDT 2008


William Kyngesburye wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Maurits Diephuis wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to install postGIS on Mac OS X (Leopard 10.5.5 on intel)
>> I've downloaded to following binaries:
>>
>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/files/software/unixport/PostgreSQL-8.3.3-1.dmg
>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/files/software/unixport/PostGIS-1.3.3-1a.dmg
>>
>> And the GEOS 3 and PROJ 3 frameworks from the same site.
>>
>> I have Postgre up and running with a database called SDM,
>>
>> I then ran this command:
>> sudo su - postgres -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createlang -U postgres 
>> plpgsql SDM'
>>
>> Which works as far as I can see, but then PostGIS gives this error:
>>
>> $ sudo su - postgres -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -d SDM -f 
>> /usr/local/pgsql/share/lwpostgis.sql'
>> Password:
>> BEGIN
>> psql:/usr/local/pgsql/share/lwpostgis.sql:44: NOTICE:  type 
>> "histogram2d" is not yet defined
>> DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition.
>> psql:/usr/local/pgsql/share/lwpostgis.sql:44: ERROR:  could not access 
>> file "$libdir/liblwgeom": No such file or directory
>>
> This comes up occassionally on the list, and seems to be a problem with 
> configuring the compilation (shouldn't be in this case) or 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATHS at runtime (a linux problem, doesn't apply to OSX).
> 
> Maybe the logs have something helpful?  Open Console.app and see if 
> there is anything in "All Messages" first.  Hopefully there will be an 
> expanded error message about that $libdir - what did Postgres actually try.
> 
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> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
> 
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> 
> - Ford Prefect
> 
> 
> 
hi,

I couldn't find anything in the logs, but I did manage to get everything 
working today.

I basically replaced all $libdir occurrences with the actual path.

tnx !

Maurits

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