[postgis-users] configure: libpq error

Jorge Arevalo jorgearevalo at gis4free.org
Mon May 10 00:34:55 PDT 2010


On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Ludovico Bianchini <metlud at yahoo.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> after I've installed (on fedora) postgres 8.4 from binaries, proj and geos
> from source; I've tried to install postgis 1.5
> from source but configure has thrown error "could not find libpq"; libpq
> exists in postgres /lib directory and I've execute
> configure with -pg_config, -geos_config and -proj_dir (please don't consider
> syntax error in the options), I've added libqp's path
> to PATH variable.
>
> I've seen a post with this problem dated March 1st, but it seems that the
> reply has not gave a solution.
>
> What are the common solutions to this problem? Copy the library in another
> path? To add any configuration to any file?
> To install something that I've not installed?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions!!
>
> Bye bye
>
> Ludovico
>

I'm not a Fedora user, but did you try adding libpq path (postgres lib
directory) to /etc/ld.so.conf and then executing /sbin/ldconfig?

Best regards,
Jorge

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