Re: Heads up: Potential PostGIS breakage is coming

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 7:59 AM Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am about to push PostGIS 2.4.2-2 packages to 10-testing repos. Unlike the
> other packages, the new packages will depend on proj49 (Proj 4.9) and
> geos36
> (GeOS 3.6) packages, which installs to non-standard directories
> (/usr/proj49
> and /usr/geos36, respectively), so won't conflict with the OS packages, but
> will use recent versions of Proj and GeOS. With this change, we can
> introduce
> GeOS 3.7 support to our repo, when it is released.
>
> I read some reports about proj 4.8 reporting incorrect results, that
> triggered
> this package process.
>
> So, I will be happy if someone can test by enabling PG 10 testing
> repository,
> and see if things are broken or not.
>
>
I think postgis is not dynamically linking properly to proj. It finds the
path fine when compiling, though. Perhaps it, like libproj49 itself in
relation to geos36, requires some ldconfig files.