[postgis-users] Problem building PostGIS 1.4.0 on Ubuntu 9.04 (missing pgxs.mk)

Tyler Erickson tyler.erickson at mtu.edu
Fri Oct 30 08:23:15 PDT 2009 

I'm having problems building PostGIS 1.4.0 on Ubuntu 9.04 (a new install). 
At the configure step for building PostGIS I get the following error:

configure: error: the PGXS Makefile
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk cannot be found.
Please install the PostgreSQL server development packages and re-run
configure.

pg_config reports the (supposed) location of the pgxs.mk file, but no file
was actually installed there during the PostgreSQL install...

root at vb-ubuntu-serva:/home/tylere/src/postgis/postgis-1.4.0# pg_config
--pgxs
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk
root at vb-ubuntu-serva:/home/tylere/src/postgis/postgis-1.4.0# ls $(pg_config
--pgxs)
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk: No
such file or directory

I have included the PostGIS ./configure output and the bash script I use to
build the libraries below.

Is this a bug with the PostgreSQL installer?  Is there a way to get around
this by modifying the configure script for PostGIS?

- Tyler




root at vb-ubuntu-serva:/home/tylere/src/postgis/postgis-1.4.0# ./configure
--prefix=$POSTGIS_PATH --datadir=$PG_SHARE
--with-geosconfig=$GEOS_PATH/bin/geos-config --with-projdir=$PROJ_PATH
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for ar... ar
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries...
yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries...
yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries...
yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking if g++ supports -Wall... yes
checking if g++ supports -Wmissing-prototypes... yes
checking for flex... flex
checking lex output file root... lex.yy
checking lex library... -lfl
checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... no
checking ieeefp.h usability... no
checking ieeefp.h presence... no
checking for ieeefp.h... no
checking for convert... no
configure: WARNING: ImageMagick does not seem to be installed. Documentation
cannot be built
checking for xsltproc... /usr/bin/xsltproc
checking for dblatex... no
configure: WARNING: dblatex is not installed so PDF documentation cannot be
built
configure: WARNING: could not locate Docbook stylesheets required to build
the documentation
checking CUnit/CUnit.h usability... no
checking CUnit/CUnit.h presence... no
checking for CUnit/CUnit.h... no
configure: WARNING: could not locate CUnit required for liblwgeom unit tests
checking iconv.h usability... yes
checking iconv.h presence... yes
checking for iconv.h... yes
checking for libiconv_open in -liconv... no
checking for iconv_open in -lc... yes
checking for pg_config... /usr/bin/pg_config
configure: error: the PGXS Makefile
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk cannot be found.
Please install the PostgreSQL server development packages and re-run
configure.


Here is the bash script that I have been using to build the libraries...

USER=$SUDO_USER
SRCDIR=/home/$USER/src
GEOS_VER=3.1.1
GEOS_PATH=/usr/local/geos/$GEOS_VER
PROJ_VER=4.6.1
PROJ_PATH=/usr/local/proj/$PROJ_VER
GDAL_VER=1.6.2
GDAL_PATH=/usr/local/gdal/$GDAL_VER
LIBGEOTIFF_VER=1.2.5
LIBGEOTIFF_PATH=/usr/local/libgeotiff/$LIBGEOTIFF_VER
POSTGRESQL_VER=8.3
POSTGIS_VER=1.4.0
POSTGIS_PATH=/usr/local/postgis/$POSTGIS_VER
POSTGIS_TEMPLATE=postgis-template

if [ ! -d $SRCDIR ]; then
    mkdir $SRCDIR
fi

echo "Installing the essential build packages"
sudo aptitude install -y build-essential

echo "Installing g++"
sudo apt-get install -y g++

echo "Installing version control tools..."
sudo apt-get install -y subversion mercurial qct

echo "Installing PostgreSQL $POSTGRESQL_VER..."
sudo aptitude install -y postgresql python-psycopg2
postgresql-server-dev-$POSTGRESQL_VER flex libpq-dev

echo "Building and installing GEOS $GEOS_VER..."
if [ ! -d $SRCDIR/geos ]; then
	mkdir $SRCDIR/geos
	cd $SRCDIR/geos
	wget http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-$GEOS_VER.tar.bz2
	tar xjf geos-$GEOS_VER.tar.bz2
	cd geos-$GEOS_VER
	./configure --prefix=$GEOS_PATH
	make
	sudo make install
    sudo sh -c "echo $GEOS_PATH'/lib' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/geos.conf" 
    sudo ldconfig
fi

echo "Building and installing Proj $PROJ_VER..."
if [ ! -d $SRCDIR/proj ]; then
    mkdir $SRCDIR/proj    
    cd $SRCDIR/proj
    wget http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-$PROJ_VER.tar.gz
    wget http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-1.4.tar.gz
fi
if [ ! -d $SRCDIR/proj/proj-$PROJ_VER ]; then
    tar xzf proj-$PROJ_VER.tar.gz
    cd proj-$PROJ_VER/nad
    tar xzf ../../proj-datumgrid-1.4.tar.gz
    cd ..
    ./configure --prefix=$PROJ_PATH
    make
    sudo make install
    sudo sh -c "echo $PROJ_PATH'/lib' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/proj.conf"
    sudo ldconfig
fi

echo "Building and installing PostGIS $POSTGIS_VER..."
if [ ! -d $SRCDIR/postgis ]; then
    mkdir $SRCDIR/postgis
    cd $SRCDIR/postgis
    wget http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-$POSTGIS_VER.tar.gz
fi
if [ ! -d $SRCDIR/postgis/postgis-$POSTGIS_VER ]; then
    tar xzf postgis-$POSTGIS_VER.tar.gz
    cd postgis-$POSTGIS_VER
    PG_SHARE=$(pg_config --sharedir)
    ./configure --prefix=$POSTGIS_PATH --datadir=$PG_SHARE
--with-geosconfig=$GEOS_PATH/bin/eos-config --with-projdir=$PROJ_PATH
    make
    sudo make install
    sh -c "echo $POSTGIS_PATH'/lib' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/postgis.conf"
    ldconfig
fi
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