[postgis-users] Postgis 1.3.5 installation issue

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Ahmed Dassouki wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I'm installing postgis 1.3.5 on an ubuntu 8.10 box.  i have postgresql 
> 8.3 installed. I'm getting an error on the "make" stage following the 
> postgis documentation 
> http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.3/ch02.html#PGInstall 
> step 4
> 
> configure output http://pastebin.com/d2ac0a983
> make output http://pastebin.com/m66d27c14
> 
> any ideas on what is causing this?
> cheers,
> Ahmed


Hi Ahmed,

It looks as if you are missing the postgresql-server-dev package on your 
  Ubuntu box.

On my Debian lenny setup here, the libpq-dev package installs a 
lobotomised pg_config which doesn't respond to any of the options 
required to build server plugins. Installing the above package will 
install a new version along with all of the headers required to support 
this.


HTH,

Mark.

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