[postgis-users] Why can't PostGIS ./configure find libgeos_c ??

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> Actually the original poster is right, and the message is not 
> particularly clear. Let me see about changing it...

Hmmm I think the original poster has misquoted the message. According to 
SVN, if geos-config can't be found in the current path then the error 
message output will be:

"could not find geos-config within the current path. You may need to try 
re-running configure with a --with-geosconfig parameter."

If a "--with-geosconfig" parameter is specified on its own without a 
path then the error message output will be:

"you must specify a parameter to --with-geosconfig, e.g. 
--with-geosconfig=/path/to/geos-config"

And finally, if you pass a filename that doesn't exist then you get:

"the user-specified geos-config file $GEOSCONFIG does not exist"

All of this looks reasonably clear to me...


ATB,

Mark.

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