[postgis-users] Problems compiling Postgis from source in Ubuntu 9.10

[Dave Potts]

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

Has anybody read this web page ?

http://workingonnothing.blogspot.com/2009/08/setting-up-ubuntu-server-installig.html

Its somebodies successful attempt to install postgis 1-4.0 using the 
installed version of 8.3 on ubuntu Jaunty

Dave.
> Roger André wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I see from the Changelog that you committed many of the pgxs updates, 
>> so thanks for the response.  A couple points I'd like to clarify.
>>
>> 1. I have not installed ANY Postgresql code from aptitude, nor do I 
>> wish to.  Everything is fresh source code installed under /usr/local, 
>> and I would very much like to keep it that way.  You're right that 
>> there is another pg_config in /usr/bin/pg_config though, but I have 
>> no idea how it got there.  It's also strange that when I go through 
>> the locations specified by /usr/bin/pg_config, only some of them 
>> exist.  Looks like some sort of partial install, or something.  
>> aptitude also has no record of installing any postgres* package, so 
>> not sure how it got there.
>>
>> 2. Totally willing to grant you that my configure options might be 
>> incorrect for PostGIS 1.4. I didn't realize they had changed from 1.3 
>> to 1.4.  I'll have a closer look at the ./configure --help output to 
>> make sure I specify them correctly.   Would help if I pointed to the 
>> right pg_config. ;)
>>
>> 3. I am going to clean out all traces of the Ubuntu package on the 
>> system, and then will see if I can get the source to compile properly.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Roger
>
> Hi Roger,
>
> I think it's related to the fact that multiple packages in Debian 
> install pg_config but not necessarily with the correct Makefile. I 
> have a feeling it is related to the libpq-dev package but it's quite 
> difficult to test unless you reinstall a machine from scratch :(
>
> Glad that you managed to get it all installed though.
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.
>