I have made various attempts to install grass, which depends on
postgresql. These attempts have always failed. I think there are at
least two problems here.
Problem 1 - Grass-5.0.0pre3-2 has a missing dependency to
postgresql-dev 7.2.1-5.
My attempts to install grass have always failed with:
checking whether to use PostgreSQL... yes
checking for location of PostgreSQL includes... /sw/include/postgresql
configure: error: *** PostgreSQL includes directory
/sw/include/postgresql does not exist.
### execution of ./configure failed, exit code 1
Failed: compiling grass-5.0.0pre3-2 failed
Sure enough, /sw/include/postgresql was missing. Yesterday, I
finally did a fink list postgresql, and saw:
i postgresql 7.2.1-5 Open Source SQL database
postgresql-dev 7.2.1-5 Development headers and libraries for Pos...
postgresql-perl 7.2.1-5 Perl tools for PostgreSQL application and...
postgresql-pyth 7.2.1-5 Python tools for PostgreSQL application a...
i postgresql-shli 7.2.1-5 Shared libraries for PostgreSQL.
postgresql-tcl 7.2.1-5 TCL tools for PostgreSQL application and ...
I installed postgresql-dev, and that got me a tiny bit further:
checking whether to use PostgreSQL... yes
checking for location of PostgreSQL includes... /sw/include/postgresql
checking for libpq-fe.h... yes
checking for postgres.h... no
checking for postgres_fe.h... no
configure: error: *** Unable to locate PostgreSQL includes.
### execution of ./configure failed, exit code 1
Failed: compiling grass-5.0.0pre3-2 failed
So, at the very least, there is a missing dependency to postgresql-dev.
2. Problem 2 - missing postgres_fe.h. Even after I install
postgresql-dev, the grass install fails, apparently because it can't
find postgres_fe.h (I'm no expert here - is this really the cause?)
I rooted around in /sw/include/postgresql, and found
/sw/include/postgresql/server/postgres.h and postgres_fe.h, and I
found /sw/include/postgresql/internal/postgres_fe.h. Could either of
these be the ones grass is looking for? If so, is that a problem
with the grass package, or the postgresql package? Or, is there
something I should do on my system to sort all this out?
Thanks,
Kevin Horton
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