[postgis-users] PostGIS install error

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:22:30AM -0700, trung nguyen wrote:

> I have following error when install PostGIS 2.2 (latest) on Oracle Ent Linux 6.0:
> 
>          configure: WARNING: CUnit/CUnit.h: present but cannot be compiled
>         configure: WARNING: CUnit/CUnit.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
>         configure: WARNING: CUnit/CUnit.h: see the Autoconf documentation
>         configure: WARNING: CUnit/CUnit.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
>         configure: WARNING: CUnit/CUnit.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
>         configure: WARNING: CUnit/CUnit.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
>         checking for CUnit/CUnit.h... yes
>         checking for CU_initialize_registry in -lcunit... no
>         configure: WARNING: could not locate CUnit required for unit tests
>         checking iconv.h usability... no
>         checking iconv.h presence... yes
>         configure: WARNING: iconv.h: present but cannot be compiled
>         configure: WARNING: iconv.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
>         configure: WARNING: iconv.h: see the Autoconf documentation
>         configure: WARNING: iconv.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
>         configure: WARNING: iconv.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
>         configure: WARNING: iconv.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
>         checking for iconv.h... yes
>         checking for libiconv_open in -liconv... no
>         checking for iconv_open in -lc... no
>         checking for iconv_open in -liconv... no
>         configure: error: Could not find libiconv. Please install libiconv and libiconv-devel.
> Could you help?

<rant>
"Oracle Ent Linux 6.0" ?
Did you think Oracle would help you installing PostGIS ?
</rant>

Are libiconv and libiconv-devel installed ?
The problem seems to be that ./configure cannot find libcunit or it finds
a version which does not contain CU_initialie_registry.

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