[postgis-users] Trouble Installing PostGIS 1.5.2 on Enterprise Linux

[Tom Liebert]

Leo & Regina:

You were right - I was having library link issues.  I'd previously followed
your tutorial (linked below) but was mis-reading the "ldd" outputs.  Thank
you.

--
Tom

On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

> Tom,
>
> Its unclear from your note if this is your problem, but from experience,
> the
> most common problem people run into when compiling PostGIS on Cent OS/Red
> Hat EL is the binding between the geos library linking  and postgis-1.5.so
> .
>
> We documented a workaround here -
>
> http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/147-Compiling-PostGIS-1.5-and
> -installing-after-Yum-PostgreSQL-Install.html<http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/147-Compiling-PostGIS-1.5-and%0A-installing-after-Yum-PostgreSQL-Install.html>
> -- way down in the problems section
>
> Basically you want to check to make sure the links are right by running
> ldd -d /usr/lib64/pgsql/postgis-1.5.so
> ldd -d /usr/lib64/pgsql/postgis-1.5.so | grep libgeos
> ldd -d /usr/lib64/pgsql/postgis-1.5.so | grep libproj
>
> And then correct them.  We just change the symlinks to point to the right
> place -- which we have documented in the above article.
>
> I think Mark Cave-Ayland or Sandro Santilli had a more elegant way of
> fixing
> this issue, but can't find that item.
> If they are around, maybe they can chime in on this.
>
>  We should probably note this in the installation and FAQ some where since
> it seems several people have been bitten by this.
>
> As a side note  --with-pgsql is obsolete -- you should be using --
> --with-pgconfig=FILE  (where FILE is path to your postgresql config)
>
> Leo and Regina
> http://www.postgis.us
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Tom
> Liebert
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 1:02 PM
> To: postgis-users
> Subject: [postgis-users] Trouble Installing PostGIS 1.5.2 on Enterprise
> Linux
>
>
> I've got some experience installing PostGIS on Postgres 8.4 running on
> Ubuntu Linux, but am running into issues on CentOS 5.5.  I've got all
> dependencies installed: Geos-3.2.2, Proj-4.7.0, GDAL/OGR 1.7.2 (!),
> libxml2-2.7.6 and everything seems to go well during my configure:
> //----------------
>
> ./configure --with-pgconfig=/usr/bin/pg_config \
> --with-xml2config=/usr/local/src/libxml2-2.7.6/xml2-config \
> --with-proj \
> --with-geosconfig=/usr/local/bin/geos-config \
>
> --with-pgsql
> //----------------
> The make results:
> //----------------
> PostGIS was built successfully. Ready to install.
> //----------------
> But make install isn't as neat:
> //----------------
> /bin/sh /usr/lib64/pgsql/pgxs/src/makefiles/../../config/install-sh -c
> shp2pgsql /usr/bin
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/postgis-1.5.2/loader'
> //----------------
> And, my resulting attempts to create a PostGIS database do not succeed.
> Here's my commands:
>
> #login as postgres
> sudo su postgres
> #create database stuff
> createdb example_db
> createlang plpgsql example_db
> psql -d example_db -f /usr/share/pgsql/contrib/postgis-1.5/postgis.sql
>
> psql -d example_db -f
> /usr/share/pgsql/contrib/postgis-1.5/spatial_ref_sys.sql
> #logout of postgres user
> exit
>
> Anyone have advice on what to look for in a successful install?
>
>
>
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