[postgis-users] Building Postgres under FreeBSD 4.7

[Paul Ramsey]

It sounds like your version of make does not like our makefile for some 
reason.  Try 'gmake' first and see what happens.
Paul

On Sunday, March 23, 2003, at 10:09 AM, Benjamin Thelen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am quite new to Unix and started with FreeBSD 4.7. I've installed
> postgresql 7.2.2 via the ports collection and it is running.
> Additionally I downloaded the postgresql source tree, built it
> (/.configure, make) and added the postgis source code into
> postgresql/contrib./postgis After that I compiled the proj4 library
> without problems. Then I tried to compile postgis 0.7.2, but the 
> process
> stops with an error message like you find below. I then deleted the
> 0.7.2 Code and took 0.7.4. The message between 0.7.2 and 0.7.4 differs 
> a
> little but both are telling something about missing dependency operator
> and so on.
>
>
> bsd# cd /root/tmp/postgresql-7.2.2/postgresql-7.2.2/contrib/postgis/
> bsd# make
> "/root/tmp/postgresql-7.2.2/postgresql-7.2.2/contrib/postgis/Makefile",
> line 25:
>  Missing dependency operator
> "/root/tmp/postgresql-7.2.2/postgresql-7.2.2/contrib/postgis/Makefile",
> line 29:
>  Need an operator
> "/root/tmp/postgresql-7.2.2/postgresql-7.2.2/contrib/postgis/Makefile",
> line 33:
>  Need an operator
> Error expanding embedded variable.
>
>
>
>
> I read a thread in the postgis mailing list about FreeBSD and postgis
> but it doesn't help very much, because there is just one thing 
> mentioned
> what must be changed (add "include "machine/endian.h"" to
> postgis_debug.c), but the rest of the necessary changes are not
> mentioned at all. He also says it is difficult for a novice to compile
> postgis.
>
>
>
> Here are the first lines of the postgis 0.7.4 Makefile, where I've
> changed the USE_PROJ to 1.
>
> Configuration Directives
>
> #---------------------------------------------------------------
> # Set USE_PROJ to 1 for Proj4 reprojection support
> #
> USE_PROJ=1
> PROJ_DIR=/usr/local
>
> #---------------------------------------------------------------
> # Set USE_STATS to 1 for new GiST statistics collection support
> # Note that this support requires additional columns in
> # GEOMETRY_COLUMNS, so see the list archives for info or
> # install a fresh database using postgis.sql
> #
> USE_STATS=0
>
> #---------------------------------------------------------------
> subdir=contrib/postgis
>
>
> What can I do to have it running? I would think it is something what
> must be changed in the Makefile, but I guess I am wrong. I don't know
> where to start my error search. Is it easier to take Linux?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Benjamin
>
>
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      Paul Ramsey
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