Re: [postgis-users] Compiling PostGIS 1.4.0 release on Solaris 10

2009-11-27 Thread Paul Ramsey
FYI, under OpenSolaris, I can build and regress without errors. SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_111b i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris P. On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Nathan Widmyer wrote: > Ah, thank you for clearing that up. > > I was going off of: > http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual

Re: [postgis-users] Compiling PostGIS 1.4.0 release on Solaris 10

2009-11-26 Thread Nathan Widmyer
The machine has a system PostgreSQL 8.1 something but no PostGIS extensions. The box also has Pg 8.4.0 with PostGIS 1.4.0 (GEOS 3.1.1) that I compiled about six months ago. I thought the instance was turned off for several reasons, but I see what you mean of a mixup in Pg instances, I'll check tha

Re: [postgis-users] Compiling PostGIS 1.4.0 release on Solaris 10

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Ramsey
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Nathan Widmyer wrote: > 1. I get differences in error message formats. > The tests expect an error message, "ERROR:  parse error - invalid > geometry" but the tests return "ERROR:  parse error - invalid geometry > at character 18" > I think the PGIS developers add

Re: [postgis-users] Compiling PostGIS 1.4.0 release on Solaris 10

2009-11-26 Thread Nathan Widmyer
It's Solaris 10 8/07, the box is only about a year old. I do get two types of test failures though... 1. I get differences in error message formats. The tests expect an error message, "ERROR: parse error - invalid geometry" but the tests return "ERROR: parse error - invalid geometry at characte

Re: [postgis-users] Compiling PostGIS 1.4.0 release on Solaris 10

2009-11-25 Thread Paul Ramsey
How old is your solaris? I just got my OpenSolaris VM back up and running, but it's very fresh indeed. I'll get some testing going on that. P On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Nathan Widmyer wrote: > Ah, thank you for clearing that up. > > I was going off of: > http://postgis.refractions.net/doc

Re: [postgis-users] Compiling PostGIS 1.4.0 release on Solaris 10

2009-11-25 Thread Nathan Widmyer
Ah, thank you for clearing that up. I was going off of: http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.4/ch02.html#id2531756 which, respectively, Which is how I've always built software, test before install, so I didn't question the directions. I understand not conflicting with a running

Re: [postgis-users] Compiling PostGIS 1.4.0 release on Solaris 10

2009-11-25 Thread Paul Ramsey
The sequence (prior to 1.5) is actually make make install make check which might be the problem. We can't start the DB automatically as there might be one already running, under system privs. At least a couple of your issues are improved in 1.5, but we leave the stable series generally along exc

[postgis-users] Compiling PostGIS 1.4.0 release on Solaris 10

2009-11-25 Thread Nathan Widmyer
When I'm running "make check", the first unit tests run but the tests against the DB doesn't run. The line with the error says: psql:postgis.sql:52: ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/postgis-1.4": No such file or directory Looking on another installation, the $libdir is filled out as Pg's l