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

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Dave Potts wrote:

> 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.

Hmmm it's not bad, although totally wrong in a couple of critical places.

For example, feeding --prefix into configure won't do anything in 1.4 
and you shouldn't extract the source tarball in the target installation 
directory - you compile externally and PGXS automagically copies the 
files to the right places on "make install".


ATB,

Mark.

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