Re: Installation of Postgis/postgresql

On 12/28/2009 08:24 PM, Nick wrote:
> Trying to install postgis on LINUX machine, need to find the geos-
> config file, as seems it is no where to be found after download of
> postgis in the ./configure step, is there anyone that can give me a
> clue on how to find this file? Ultimate goal is to get postgis working
> so we can use geom data type in the tables on postgresql, and to get
> php to be able to talk to postgresql when scripts are run using
> pg_connect function.
>
> during ./configure of postGIS errors out looking for geos-config
>
> during ./configure of geos errors out looking for g++
>
> to the best of my knowledge g++ is part of gcc and we have a current
> version of the gcc compiler on the computer
>
> Thanks,
> Nick

if you type 'g++' and hit return, do you get the message: 'g++: no input files'

What distro are you running?

-Andy