Re: [GENERAL] Error During PostGIS Build From Source on Linux

On 04/13/2017 02:46 AM, Osahon Oduware wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> I followed the step you provided and the installation was successful.
> However, I created a test database and when I try to create a postgis
> extension in the test database using:
> CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
>
> I get the following error:
> ERROR: could not load library "/path/to/postgresql/lib/postgis-2.3.so
> <http://postgis-2.3.so>": /path/to/postgresql/lib/postgis-2.3.so
> <http://postgis-2.3.so>: undefined symbol: GEOSClipByRect
>
> Please, do you have any idea what I might be doing wrong?
>

Should have added to my previous post:

If you are going to compile the code, the output at the end of the
./configure process for Postgis is helpful. It helps identify what is
going to be included and what is not.

In my case:

PostGIS is now configured for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

  -------------- Compiler Info -------------
   C compiler:           gcc -g -O2
   SQL preprocessor:     /usr/bin/cpp -traditional-cpp -w -P

  -------------- Dependencies --------------
   GEOS config:          /usr/bin/geos-config
   GEOS version:         3.5.1
   GDAL config:          /home/aklaver/gdal/bin/gdal-config
   GDAL version:         2.1.3
   PostgreSQL config:    /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config
   PostgreSQL version:   PostgreSQL 9.5.6
   PROJ4 version:        49
   Libxml2 config:       /usr/bin/xml2-config
   Libxml2 version:      2.9.4
   JSON-C support:       no
   PCRE support:         yes
   PostGIS debug level:  0
   Perl:                 /usr/bin/perl

  --------------- Extensions ---------------
   PostGIS Raster:       enabled
   PostGIS Topology:     enabled
   SFCGAL support:       disabled
   Address Standardizer support:       enabled

  -------- 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

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com