[postgis-users] Strange problem building postgis 1.4.2 with geos

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 07/04/11 18:50, Bryan Montgomery wrote:

> I'm probably missing something simple. However I've been looking at this
> for a few hours scratching my head. First of, I know it's old versions
> we're using, I'm hoping to upgrade everything to the latest but ....
>
> We're trying to upgrade a version of geos, so we built and installed the
> next version of geos.
> geos-config --version reports 3.1.1.
>
> Ok, so far, running configure:
>    PostGIS is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
>   -------------- Compiler Info -------------
>    C compiler:           gcc -g -O2
>    C++ compiler:         g++ -g -O2
>
>   -------------- Dependencies --------------
>    GEOS config:          /usr/local/bin/geos-config
>    GEOS version:         3.1
>    PostgreSQL config:    /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config
>    PostgreSQL version:   8.2
>    PROJ4 version:        46
>    PostGIS debug level:  0
>
> All looks good, so we build ...
> PostGIS was built successfully. Ready to install.

That's strange. Could it be a permissions problem? Does "make clean" 
remove postgis/libpostgis-1.4.so? If so, do a configure, make and then 
"make install" and check again.


ATB,

Mark.

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