[postgis-users] [GENERAL] Error During PostGIS Build From Source on Linux

Osahon Oduware osahon.gis at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 06:33:24 PDT 2017


Hi Regina,

This suggestion helped to resolve the problem. Thanks a lot for your help.

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

> Osahon,
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> That error means you have installed an older version of GEOS in your
> system and it's picking up the old one instead of the one in your
>
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>   /home/nagispg/local/geos361/bin/geos-config
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> I suspect that's the same issue with your proj too.
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> I think doing an ldconfig after install of GEOS and proj might fix the
> issue, but I forget.
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> It's been a while since I've had to compile the extra dependencies even if
> building PostGIS on Linux.
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> Regarding the whole GDAL thing on windows.
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> I'm the builder of the Windows application Stackbuilder PostGIS bundle and
> also manage the Windows PostGIS buildbot.
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> As I think someone mentioned, as a policy we don't compile any proprietary
> extensions into the distributed windows PostGIS bundle.
>
> So that's one reason why Mr. SID is not included and will probably never
> be included.
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> However, you could convert Mr. SID format to something like OpenJpeg or
> TIFF using GISInternals GDAL binaries for windows:
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> http://www.gisinternals.com/release.php
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> Last I tried, that one does have Mr. SID support.  Unfortunately you can't
> swap out his GDAL for the ones we package.
>
> I was hoping I could make that possible at some point, but no free time or
> enough funding interest to investigate.
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> Thanks,
>
> Regina Obe
>
> PostGIS PSC member
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> http://postgis.us
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> http://postgis.net
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> *From:* postgis-users [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Osahon Oduware
> *Sent:* Friday, April 14, 2017 3:21 PM
> *To:* Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver at aklaver.com>
> *Cc:* pgsql-general at postgresql.org; PostGIS Users Discussion <
> postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [postgis-users] [GENERAL] Error During PostGIS Build From
> Source on Linux
>
>
>
> Hi Adrian,
>
>
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> I installed Proj from source and I can confirm that the file libproj.so.12
> is in its lib folder.
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> I have not been able to confirm if it is linked to postgis-2.3.so as I am
> away for Easter holiday.
>
>
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> Just in case, how do I do the linking of libproj.so.12 to postgis-2.3.so as
> I believe this could be the cause of the error. Also, I tried earlier to
> copy the file to the PostgreSQL lib folder and this time when I try to run
> "CREATE EXTENSION postgis;" I get the initial error:
>
> ERROR: could not load library "/path/to/postgresql/lib/postgis-2.3.so":
> /path/to/postgresql/lib/postgis-2.3.so: undefined symbol: GEOSClipByRect
>
>
>
> I will be glad if anyone could help with this.
>
>
>
> On Apr 13, 2017 18:27, "Adrian Klaver" <adrian.klaver at aklaver.com> wrote:
>
> On 04/13/2017 07:54 AM, Osahon Oduware wrote:
>
> Hi Adrian,
>
> Thanks for your help so far. This is the output of the PostGIS
> configuration:
>
> -------------- Compiler Info -------------
>   C compiler:           gcc -g -O2
>   SQL preprocessor:     /usr/bin/cpp -traditional-cpp -w -P
>
>  -------------- Dependencies --------------
>   GEOS config:          /home/nagispg/local/geos361/bin/geos-config
>   GEOS version:         3.6.1
>   GDAL config:          /home/nagispg/local/gdal213/bin/gdal-config
>   GDAL version:         2.1.3
>   PostgreSQL config:    /home/nagispg/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config
>   PostgreSQL version:   PostgreSQL 9.6.2
>   PROJ4 version:        49
>   Libxml2 config:       /usr/bin/xml2-config
>   Libxml2 version:      2.7.6
>   JSON-C support:       no
>   PCRE support:         no
>   PostGIS debug level:  0
>   Perl:                 /usr/bin/perl
>
>  --------------- Extensions ---------------
>   PostGIS Raster:       enabled
>   PostGIS Topology:     enabled
>   SFCGAL support:       disabled
>   Address Standardizer support:       disabled
>
>  -------- Documentation Generation --------
>   xsltproc:             /usr/bin/xsltproc
>   xsl style sheets:
>   dblatex:
>   convert:              /usr/bin/convert
>   mathml2.dtd:          http://www.w3.org/Math/DTD/mathml2/mathml2.dtd
> <http://www.w3.org/Math/DTD/mathml2/mathml2.dtd>
>
> I had to install a *higher version of Proj (4.9.3)* that was used to
>
>
> configure PostGIS (I think I read somewhere in the documentation that
>
> the version of Proj should be >= 4.6.0). *Now, I get the following error
> when I run CREATE EXTENSION postgis:*
>
>
> How did you install Proj, from a package or source?
>
>
> *ERROR: could not load library postgis-2.3.so <http://postgis-2.3.so>:
> libproj.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory*
>
>
> First find postgis-2.3.so and do:
>
> ldd postgis-2.3.so
>
> It should show something like:
>
>         linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe3ed8a000)
>         libgeos_c.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libgeos_c.so.1 (0x00007f975bd09000)
>     ==> libproj.so.9 => /usr/lib64/libproj.so.9 (0x00007f975baaa000)
>         libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2 (0x00007f975b73f000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f975b442000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f975b09e000)
>         libgeos-3.5.1.so => /usr/lib64/libgeos-3.5.1.so
> (0x00007f975acef000)
>         libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f975a966000)
>         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f975a74e000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f975a531000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f975a32d000)
>         libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f975a116000)
>         liblzma.so.5 => /usr/lib64/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f9759eed000)
>         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055ebafa02000)
>
> That will verify if postgis-2.3.so is linked to libproj.
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> I would be glad if someone could point me to what I am doing wrong and
> possible solution.
>
>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian.klaver at aklaver.com
>
>
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