Re: Errors while installing PostGIS by an unusual method

Hi Ankit,

You might have specific requirements to need PG 9.6. But if 9.5 is
sufficient, it will be easier to simply do a rpm/yum install.

Regards,
Daniel

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 4:08 AM, Ankit Sablok <ankitsab(at)buffalo(dot)edu> wrote:

> Thanks for replying Tom and Asif, I think the issue was that libpq.so
> present in the /pgsql/lib directory did not have all its dependencies
> installed on the system namely openssl hence I execute the command sudo yum
> install openssl and that proceeded the configure script forward, but now I
> ran into a separate issue where I do see libxml2 libraries present in the
> /pgsql/lib directory and I have also set the appropriate PATH and
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the build to happen successfully, here is the configure
> log when I execute the following command
>
> ./configure --with-gdalconfig=/pgsql/bin/gdal-config
> --with-geosconfig=//pgsql/bin/geos-config --with-projdir=/pgsql --with-jsondir=/rdsdbbin/apg-1.0.6.2
> --with-pgconfig=/pgsql/bin/pg_config --with-libxml2=/pgsql/bin/xml2-config
>
> *configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-libxml2*
> *checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu*
> *checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu*
> *checking how to print strings... printf*
> *checking for gcc... gcc*
> *checking whether the C compiler works... yes*
> *checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out*
> *checking for suffix of executables... *
> *checking whether we are cross compiling... no*
> *checking for suffix of object files... o*
> *checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes*
> *checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes*
> *checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed*
> *checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed*
> *checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep*
> *checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E*
> *checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F*
> *checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld*
> *checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes*
> *checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm*
> *checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm) interface... BSD nm*
> *checking whether ln -s works... yes*
> *checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864*
> *checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes*
> *checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes*
> *checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop*
> *checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to toolchain
> format... func_convert_file_noop*
> *checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r*
> *checking for objdump... objdump*
> *checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all*
> *checking for dlltool... no*
> *checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n*
> *checking for ar... ar*
> *checking for archiver @FILE support... @*
> *checking for strip... strip*
> *checking for ranlib... ranlib*
> *checking for gawk... gawk*
> *checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm output from gcc object... ok*
> *checking for sysroot... no*
> *checking for mt... no*
> *checking if : is a manifest tool... no*
> *checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E*
> *checking for ANSI C header files... yes*
> *checking for sys/types.h... yes*
> *checking for sys/stat.h... yes*
> *checking for stdlib.h... yes*
> *checking for string.h... yes*
> *checking for memory.h... yes*
> *checking for strings.h... yes*
> *checking for inttypes.h... yes*
> *checking for stdint.h... yes*
> *checking for unistd.h... yes*
> *checking for dlfcn.h... yes*
> *checking for objdir... .libs*
> *checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no*
> *checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC*
> *checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes*
> *checking if gcc static flag -static works... no*
> *checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes*
> *checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes*
> *checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports
> shared libraries... yes*
> *checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no*
> *checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so*
> *checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate*
> *checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes*
> *checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes*
> *checking whether to build shared libraries... yes*
> *checking whether to build static libraries... yes*
> *checking for gcc... (cached) gcc*
> *checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes*
> *checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes*
> *checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed*
> *checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E*
> *checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... (cached) /bin/grep*
> *checking for ant... no*
> *checking for cpp... /usr/local/bin/cpp*
> *checking if gcc supports -Wall... yes*
> *checking if gcc supports -Wmissing-prototypes... yes*
> *checking if gcc supports -ffloat-store... yes*
> *checking if gcc supports --exclude-libs... yes*
> *checking for flex... flex*
> *checking lex output file root... lex.yy*
> *checking lex library... none needed*
> *checking whether yytext is a pointer... no*
> *checking for bison... bison -y*
> *checking ieeefp.h usability... no*
> *checking ieeefp.h presence... no*
> *checking for ieeefp.h... no*
> *checking termios.h usability... yes*
> *checking termios.h presence... yes*
> *checking for termios.h... yes*
> *checking for vasprintf... yes*
> *checking for asprintf... yes*
> *checking for _LARGEFILE_SOURCE value needed for large files... no*
> *checking whether isfinite is declared... yes*
> *checking whether isfinite is declared... yes*
> *checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl*
> *checking for xsltproc... /usr/bin/xsltproc*
> *checking for convert... no*
> *configure: WARNING: ImageMagick does not seem to be installed.
> Documentation cannot be built*
> *checking for dblatex... no*
> *configure: WARNING: dblatex is not installed so PDF documentation cannot
> be built*
> *checking for xmllint... /usr/bin/xmllint*
> *configure: WARNING: could not locate Docbook stylesheets required to
> build the documentation*
> *checking CUnit/CUnit.h usability... no*
> *checking CUnit/CUnit.h presence... no*
> *checking for CUnit/CUnit.h... no*
> *configure: WARNING: could not locate CUnit required for unit tests*
> *checking iconv.h usability... yes*
> *checking iconv.h presence... yes*
> *checking for iconv.h... yes*
> *checking for libiconv_open in -liconv... no*
> *checking for iconv_open in -lc... yes*
> *checking for iconvctl... no*
> *checking for libiconvctl... no*
> *Using user-specified pg_config file: /pgsql/bin/pg_config*
> *checking PostgreSQL version... PostgreSQL 9.6*
> *checking libpq-fe.h usability... yes*
> *checking libpq-fe.h presence... yes*
> *checking for libpq-fe.h... yes*
> *checking for PQserverVersion in -lpq... yes*
> *checking for xml2-config... /usr/bin/xml2-config*
> *checking libxml/tree.h usability... yes*
> *checking libxml/tree.h presence... yes*
> *checking for libxml/tree.h... yes*
> *checking libxml/parser.h usability... yes*
> *checking libxml/parser.h presence... yes*
> *checking for libxml/parser.h... yes*
> *checking libxml/xpath.h usability... yes*
> *checking libxml/xpath.h presence... yes*
> *checking for libxml/xpath.h... yes*
> *checking libxml/xpathInternals.h usability... yes*
> *checking libxml/xpathInternals.h presence... yes*
> *checking for libxml/xpathInternals.h... yes*
> *checking for xmlInitParser in -lxml2... no*
> *configure: error: could not find libxml2*
>
> I am not sure how to fix that in general :(?
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> Ankit Sablok <ankitsab(at)buffalo(dot)edu> writes:
>> > I am trying to install PostGIS on a RHEL_5 system and failing at it
>> > miserably. The way I am trying to install it is as follows. I copy over
>> all
>> > the artifacts of postgresql server as in the bin, lib, share
>> directories of
>> > postgresql server in a directory called pgql and I place it in the root
>> > directory i.e /pgsql is the directory which contains things like
>> pg_config
>> > and all the other libs and bins that one gets by installing postgresql
>> > using the standard installation.
>>
>> (1) did you remember the include directory?
>>
>> (2) I think this process will not work unless /pgsql was also the install
>> directory on the source machine. You can check that by running pg_config
>> by hand and seeing what it prints for INCLUDEDIR, but it looks to me like
>> it just parrots what PG's configure expected the installation path to be.
>>
>> (This is assuming that PostGIS's configure even pays attention to what
>> pg_config says for INCLUDEDIR. I've not checked.)
>>
>> Is there a good reason why you're not building Postgres on the same
>> machine where you're building PostGIS? It seems like a recipe for
>> trouble, with little to be gained.
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
>
>