Paul, Thanks for your reply. Running 'touch test' successfully creates a file called test.
Does the info from the make offer any hints? Macintosh:postgis-1.5.1 postgres$ sudo ./configure --with-pgconfig=../bin/pg_config --with-geosconfig=../../../Frameworks/GEOS.framework/Versions/3/Programs/geos-config --with-projdir=../../../Frameworks/PROJ.framework/unix checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0 checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0 checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... 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... /usr/bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... /usr/bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin9/4.0.1/ld checking if the linker (/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin9/4.0.1/ld) is GNU ld... no checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -p checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -p) interface... 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Documentation cannot be built checking for xsltproc... /usr/bin/xsltproc checking for dblatex... no configure: WARNING: dblatex is not installed so PDF documentation cannot be built 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 liblwgeom unit tests checking iconv.h usability... yes checking iconv.h presence... yes checking for iconv.h... yes checking for libiconv_open in -liconv... yes Using user-specified pg_config file: ../bin/pg_config checking PostgreSQL version... PostgreSQL 8.4.3 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... yes Using user-specified geos-config file: ../../../Frameworks/GEOS.framework/Versions/3/Programs/geos-config checking GEOS version... 3.2.0 checking geos_c.h usability... yes checking geos_c.h presence... yes checking for geos_c.h... yes checking for initGEOS in -lgeos_c... yes Using user-specified proj directory: ../../../Frameworks/PROJ.framework/unix checking proj_api.h usability... yes checking proj_api.h presence... yes checking for proj_api.h... yes checking for pj_get_release in -lproj... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating liblwgeom/Makefile config.status: creating liblwgeom/cunit/Makefile config.status: creating postgis/Makefile config.status: creating postgis/sqldefines.h config.status: creating loader/Makefile config.status: creating topology/Makefile config.status: creating regress/Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating doc/html/image_src/Makefile config.status: creating postgis_config.h config.status: executing libtool commands PostGIS is now configured for powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0 -------------- Compiler Info ------------- C compiler: gcc -g -O2 C++ compiler: g++ -g -O2 -------------- Dependencies -------------- GEOS config: ../../../Frameworks/GEOS.framework/Versions/3/Programs/geos-config GEOS version: 3.2.0 PostgreSQL config: ../bin/pg_config PostgreSQL version: PostgreSQL 8.4.3 PROJ4 version: 47 Libxml2 config: /usr/bin/xml2-config Libxml2 version: 2.6.16 PostGIS debug level: 0 -------- Documentation Generation -------- xsltproc: /usr/bin/xsltproc xsl style sheets: dblatex: convert: On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:46:44 -0700, Paul Ramsey <pram...@cleverelephant.ca> wrote: > What happens when you run 'touch test'? > P > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM, John Connors <jconn...@berkeley.edu> > wrote: >> I am trying to build the PostGIS 1.5 files in Mac OSX and I am getting >> the >> following error: >> >> make -C liblwgeom >> gcc -g -O2 -fno-common -DPIC -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -c -o >> measures.o >> measures.c >> /var/tmp//ccyiv2X6.s:unknown:FATAL:can't create output file: measures.o >> make[1]: *** [measures.o] Error 1 >> make: *** [liblwgeom] Error 2 >> >> Any thoughts on how to deal with this? >> >> Thanks, >> John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> postgis-users mailing list >> postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net >> http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >> >> > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users