[postgis-users] Problems compiling PostGIS on Solaris 2.10/SparcV9

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Alexander Von Luenen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> unfortunately, I encountered the next problem. When running
> 
>  psql -d vob -U postgres -f lwpostgis.sql
> 
> I get the error
> 
> ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/liblwgeom": No such file or directory
> 
> pg_config --pkglibdir returns '/opt/csw/postgresql/lib', liblwgeom.so.* is in there.
> 
> Running 'ldd /opt/csw/postgresql/lib/liblwgeom.so' returns
> 
>         libgeos_c.so.1 =>        /usr/local/lib/libgeos_c.so.1
>         libproj.so.0 =>  /opt/csw/lib/libproj.so.0
>         libgcc_s.so.1 =>         /usr/sfw/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
>         libgeos-3.1.0.so =>      /usr/local/lib/libgeos-3.1.0.so
>         libstdc++.so.6 =>        /usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.so.6
>         libm.so.2 =>     /lib/libm.so.2
>         libm.so.1 =>     /lib/libm.so.1
>         libc.so.1 =>     /lib/libc.so.1
>         /platform/SUNW,T5440/lib/libc_psr.so.1
> 
> Is there something I am missing? Different versions? I have PostgreSQL 8.3.1 installed from CSW, and have compiled PostGIS 1.3.6 w/ Proj4 4.4.8 (from CSW) and GEOS 3.1.0 (compiled from source).
> 
> TIA,
> Alex


Hi Alex,

As you have quite rightly determined, if the file is present then this 
error normally indicates that one of the dependent libraries is missing. 
  Note that you need to make sure that all of the dependent libraries 
are visible by the user that runs the PostgreSQL server; setting 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a console and using ldd will not make the libraries 
visible to you but not to the database server.


HTH,

Mark.

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