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 <ankit...@buffalo.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... 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(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 <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> Ankit Sablok <ankit...@buffalo.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 >> > >
