[postgis-users] Trouble compiling Postgis with Proj 8

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Hi devs,

I've changed my Proj to ver. 8 (current master). Surprisingly, I'm not
able to compile Postgis anymore. I'm doing something wrong, but I can't
get it.

Compiling Proj:
cd ~/dev/PROJ
git pull
./autogen.sh
./configure
make -j8
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Compiling Postgis:

cd ~/dev/cpp/postgis
git pull upstream master
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-projdir=/usr/local

Output (related Proj entries):

Using user-specified proj directory: /usr/local
checking proj_api.h usability... no
checking proj_api.h presence... no
checking for proj_api.h... no
checking proj.h usability... yes
checking proj.h presence... yes
checking for proj.h... yes
checking for proj.h... (cached) yes
checking for pj_get_release in -lproj... no
configure: error: could not find libproj - you may need to specify the
directory of a PROJ installation using --with-projdir

The proj libs were created:

ls -l /usr/local/lib/libproj*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191752244 jan 23 01:00 /usr/local/lib/libproj.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      1044 jan 23 01:00 /usr/local/lib/libproj.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root        17 jan 23 01:00 /usr/local/lib/libproj.so
-> libproj.so.19.2.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root        17 jan 23 01:00
/usr/local/lib/libproj.so.19 -> libproj.so.19.2.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  72577536 jan 23 01:00
/usr/local/lib/libproj.so.19.2.0

As far as I can see, the configure checks if pj_get_release is defined
in libproj.

nm --demangle -g /usr/local/lib/libproj.so.19.2.0 | grep "pj_get_release"
0000000000268b60 T pj_get_release()

Looks perfect to me, but apparently configure is unable to see that
pj_get_release is defined.

Feedback is welcome.

Jorge Gustavo
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